O Brother Where Art Thou Capacity for Abstract Thought

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• Ulysses Everett McGill : What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?

  Tommy Johnson : Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Oh son, for that you lot sold your everlasting soul?

  Tommy Johnson : Well, I wasn't usin' it.

• Pete : Expect a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well Pete, I figured it should exist the one with the capacity for abstruse thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, permit's put information technology to a vote.

  Pete : Suits me. I'k voting for yours truly.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well I'm voting for yours truly too.

  [Everett and Pete expect at Delmar for the deciding vote]

  Delmar O'Donnell : Okay... I'm with y'all fellas.

• Delmar O'Donnell : You piece of work for the railroad, Grampa?

  Blind Seer : I work for no man.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Got a name, exercise yous?

  Blind Seer : I have no proper noun.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, that right at that place may be the reason you've had difficulty findin' gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce...

• Pete : Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher'south done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting'southward my advantage.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Delmar, what are you talking well-nigh? We've got bigger fish to fry.

  Delmar O'Donnell : The preacher says all my sins is warshed abroad, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man'south got nothin' on me now. C'mon in boys, the water is fine.

• Delmar O'Donnell : Treat some gopher?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back downward.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Oh, yous tin can have the whole affair. Me and Pete already had ane apiece. Nosotros ran across a whole... gopher village.

• Delmar O'Donnell : Can't you come across it, Everett? Them sirens did this to Pete. They loved him upwards and turned him into a... horny toad. Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete. It'southward me - Delmar. Everett...

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Delmar. What the...

  Delmar O'Donnell : What are we gonna do?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I'm non sure that's Pete.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Of grade it's Pete. Wait at him.

• Pete : The Preacher said it absolved us.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For him, not for the law. I'chiliad surprised at you lot, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.

  Delmar O'Donnell : But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put y'all square with the Lord, the Country of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed.

  [laughs]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Baptism! You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : You lot can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the skilful folks here would go right off the feed!

  Delmar O'Donnell : I just don't recollect it'southward right keeping him under wraps like we's ashamed of him.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, if it is Pete, I am aback of him! Style I run across it, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's obviously some kinda judgment on his graphic symbol.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well, the two of the states was fixin' to fornicate!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : The treasure is still there boys, believe me.

  Delmar O'Donnell : But how'd he know about the treasure?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the bespeak of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...

  Pete : He said nosotros wouldn't become get it. He said we wouldn't go the treasure nosotros seek on account of our ob-stac-les.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old human?

• Delmar O'Donnell : Gopher, Everett?

• George Nelson : Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers!

  [fires his Tommy gun at them]

  Delmar O'Donnell : Oh, George... not the livestock.

• George Nelson : [after Nelson has robbed the bank] Give thanks you folks! And recall, Jesus saves, just George Nelson withdraws!

  [laughs]

  George Nelson : Go fetch the machine voiture, Pete.

  Woman In Banking concern : [whispering] Is that "Babyface" Nelson?

  George Nelson : Who said that?

  [break]

  George Nelson : What ignorant, low down, slanderizin, son of a bitch said that?

  [goes upwardly to woman]

  George Nelson : My name is George Nelson, get me?

  Delmar O'Donnell : She didn't mean nothin by it, George.

  George Nelson : [noticeably upset] George Nelson! Not "Babyface"! You remember, and y'all tell your friends! I'chiliad George Nelson! Born to raise hell!

  [Nelson points his Tommy Gun towards the ceiling and fires information technology, and the depository financial institution patrons jump]

• [singing]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I am a human being of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days. I bid farewell to sometime Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : The place where he was born and raised.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For six long years I've been in trouble, no pleasure here on World I've establish. For in this world I'm jump to ramble, I have no friends to assist me out.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He has no friends to help him out.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Maybe your friends retrieve I'k but a stranger, my face y'all never will encounter no more than. Merely at that place is one promise that is given, I'll run across you on God's golden shore.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He'll meet you on God'south golden shore.

• Delmar O'Donnell : I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that coin on the barrelhead and buy dorsum the family farm. You own't no kind of homo if you lot ain't got land.

• Pete : Well hell, information technology ain't square i! Own't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and ane of them a know-information technology-all that can't keep his trap close.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at look at Delmar here every bit your epitome of promise.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Yeah, look at me.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female Delmar, remember that one elementary precept and your time with me will non have been ill spent.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Ok, Everett.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Striking by a train! Truth means nothing to a woman, Delmar. Triumph of the subjective. Yous e'er been with a woman?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well, I... I... I gotta become the family farm back before I tin can commencement thinking virtually that.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : That's right, if then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the virtually fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of homo.

• Delmar O'Donnell : We thought you lot was a toad!

  Pete : What?

  Delmar O'Donnell : [leaning in, speaking slower] Nosotros thought you was a toad!

• Pete : Crazy! No one's ever gonna believe we're a real band.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : No, it'southward gonna piece of work. I merely gotta get close enough to talk to her. Takin' off with the states has got more than future than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'm Goddamned bona fide!

  Delmar O'Donnell : Everett, my beard itches.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : [riding past a chain gang, Everett and Delmar come across Pete] Pete got a blood brother?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Not that I'grand aware.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Estrus must be getting to me.

• Washington Hogwallop : Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : She musta been lookin' for answers.

  Washington Hogwallop : Possibly. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. I do miss her cookin' though.

  Delmar O'Donnell : This stew's awful good.

  Washington Hogwallop : [examining his fork] You recollect so? I slaughtered this equus caballus last Tuesday... I'yard agape she'due south startin' to plow.

• Delmar O'Donnell : Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him upwards and turned him into a horny toad.

• Delmar O'Donnell : Friend? Some of your foldin' coin's come unstowed.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : I'g non certain that's Pete.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Of course information technology's Pete! Look at him!... Nosotros gotta find some kind of wizard to change him dorsum.

• Delmar O'Donnell : Jacking up banks. I can meet how a fella'd derive a whole lot of pleasance and satisfaction out of information technology.

• Big Dan Teague : Thanks for the conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from oral communication durin' taste. I find information technology grade and vulgar. Where were nosotros?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Makin' money in the service of the Lord.

  Big Dan Teague : Heh, you lot don't say much, friend, but when yous do, it's to the point and I salute you for information technology!

• Pappy O'Daniel : Furthermore, in the second Pappy O'Daniel assistants, these boys is gonna be my *brain* trust.

  Delmar O'Donnell : What'southward that hateful, Everett?

• Delmar O'Donnell : Everett, I never figured you for a paterfamilias.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Oh-ho, yes, I have spread my seed.

• Delmar O'Donnell : They... left... his... heart!

• Delmar O'Donnell : Hey mister! I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of school, only at that place's a feller in there that'll pay y'all ten dollars if you sing into his tin.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Jesus! Tin can I count on you people?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Sorry, Everett.

• Delmar O'Donnell : where'southward the happy piddling tire swing?

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