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Quotes
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Kommissar Beizmenne : "I am a bad, conscienceless, godless man, but gold is revered, and so is its owner. The divine strength of gold lies in its being the estranged, alienated and self-alienating essence of Man. It is the alienated property of Men." Sit down here. Did Goetten write that?
Katharina Blum : No, it has nothing to do with Ludwig.
Prosecutor Hach : Gold is revered, and so is its owner! Written by a bank robber, it makes sense.
Katharina Blum : It's by Karl Marx!
Moeding : Probably the early writings.
Kommissar Beizmenne : So you've read Marx?
Katharina Blum : No.
Kommissar Beizmenne : Is that your handwriting?
Katharina Blum : Father Urbanus, a Dominican, wrote it down for me. You can check. Hohenblumenburg Convent.
Prosecutor Hach : You mean you know Marx through the Dominicans? You chose the wrong order.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : Did he fuck you?
Katharina Blum : I wouldn't use that word.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : Goetten's advances didn't bother you?
Katharina Blum : Ludwig didn't make advances. He was tender.
Kommissar Beizmenne : Same thing.
Katharina Blum : It is not! Advances are a one-sided action, and tenderness is quite different. It comes from both parties.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : You think she's innocent, Moeding?
Moeding : I see it the other way around. I'd have taken her to my place.
Kommissar Beizmenne : And?
Moeding : The morning after, she'd tell me the police were after her.
Kommissar Beizmenne : You'd turn her in.
Moeding : I probably would. But I suppose an average man would not. Not everyone works for the police.
Kommissar Beizmenne : Anyone who thinks like that doesn't belong in the force, Moeding.
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Werner Tötges : Mothers are giving - even sick ones.
Kommissar Beizmenne : How did you get to the mother?
Werner Tötges : I'm an old pro.
Kommissar Beizmenne : "'It had to come to this,' she whispered in a dying voice." Did she really say that?
Werner Tötges : We must help simple people express themselves.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : What kind of man is her employer, this Blorna? Did you dig up anything?
Werner Tötges : Yes. another "coincidence": the moment the young man appeared, Blorna happened to go on vacation. His wife, an architect.
[shows the Kommissar a photo]
Werner Tötges : In student days she was known as "Trudy the Red." Not for her opinions, but for the color of her hair.
[looks down and points at his crotch]
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Kommissar Beizmenne : It should come to 104,000. But in fact it shows 162,000.
Moeding : Now and then she visits her mother in Gemmelsbroich.
Kommissar Beizmenne : 50,000 still remain unaccounted for. We have the gas bills. Where did you drive to so often? What were you spying on? Whom did you meet and where?
Katharina Blum : That's right. I just added it up in my mind. I never gave a thought about those expenses. After work, I often go for a drive. Mostly when it rains and when I'm alone. Sometimes I'm home at 5:00 with nothing to do. I know so many women who get drunk alone in front of their TV. That scares me.