The Pawnbroker (1964)

Geraldine Fitzgerald: Marilyn Birchfield

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• Marilyn Birchfield : What makes you so bitter?

  Sol Nazerman : Bitter?

  [chuckles] 

  Sol Nazerman : No, no, Miss Birchfield, I am not *bitter*. No, that passed me by a million years ago. I'm a man of no anger. I have no desire for vengeance for what was done to me. I have escaped from the emotions. I am safe within myself. All I ask and want is peace and quiet.

  Marilyn Birchfield : Why haven't you found them?

  Sol Nazerman : Because people like you will not let me. Miss Birchfield, you have made the afternoon very tedious with your constant search for an answer. And one more thing: please, stay out of my life.

• Marilyn Birchfield : What happened?

  Sol Nazerman : 'Happened'?

  Marilyn Birchfield : Yes.

  Sol Nazerman : I didn't die. Everything that I loved... was taken away from me, and... I did not die.

  Marilyn Birchfield : Mr. Nazerman!

  Sol Nazerman : There was... nothing I could do. Nothing. Strange, I could do nothing. No, there was nothing I could do.

• Marilyn Birchfield : I'm sorry, Mr. Nazerman.

  Sol Nazerman : For what?

  Marilyn Birchfield : For what that young man said to you.

  Sol Nazerman : Sell your sorrow somewhere else, miss Birchfield.

  Marilyn Birchfield : I came here mainly to apologize.

  Sol Nazerman : For what?