Hotel clerk: There's half as many baths as there is rooms. Half the rooms has bath and half hasn't; that's one way of looking at it. Another is - for each two rooms one has a bath in the middle and the other hasn't - or - you might say - there's a half a bath to each of two rooms. - Frank Orth (as Hotel Clerk) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Detective #1: Good morning, Mr. Masterston! Sam Masterson: [Realizing he's a policeman] You don't have to show me who you are. I can tell by the smell. Detective #1: My nose isn't that big! - James Flavin (as Detective #1) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Mrs. Ivers: I know why you offered to tutor Martha. I know why you've made Walter do his daily lessons with her. I know why you want him to live here. A scholarship for Walter, that's why! But I'm not a foundation, Mr. O'Neil. I don't care if Walter drives a truck or goes to Harvard. Probably be a lot happier driving a truck. - Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Ivers) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Mrs. Ivers: I'm sorry, sorry you ever left here. Sam, for old time's sake? - Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Ivers) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Walter O'Neil: Couldn't you see blackmail in his eyes? - Kirk Douglas (as Walter O'Neil) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Walter O'Neil: I wasn't going to shoot. Sam Masterson: I wasn't going to wait and see. - Van Heflin (as Sam Masterson) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Martha Ivers as a girl: You don't own the whole world. Mrs. Ivers: Enough to make sure you're always brought back to me. - Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Ivers) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Martha Ivers: A sure thing is never a gamble. Sam Masterson: No? What odds you give that that's a fact? - Van Heflin (as Sam Masterson) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Martha Ivers: Why didn't you stop me, Sam? You know how much I hated her! Why didn't you stop me? Sam Masterson: I wasn't there. Martha Ivers: Why didn't you stop... [realizes] Martha Ivers: You, weren't there? Sam Masterson: No, I left as soon as I saw your aunt enter the room. - Van Heflin (as Sam Masterson) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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Martha Ivers: You've *killed* before, it's in your record. Sam Masterson: *I* never *murdered*. - Van Heflin (as Sam Masterson) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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