Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

Orson Welles: John Andrew MacDonald, Erik Kessler

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• Elizabeth Hamilton : Won't you tell me the truth?

  John Andrew MacDonald : This is the truth. If you want to stop living in the present you can reach into the past but you'll never get back what you lost. You only lose what you have.

• John Andrew MacDonald : Would you take away the father he has, only to tell him his real father is dead, and leave him with no father at all?

• John Andrew MacDonald : Here is the one you wait for. No other man is your husband.

• John Andrew MacDonald : Miss me, but don't be afraid.

• John Andrew MacDonald : The Nazis call it a New Order. Supermen and slave people. Actually, they're just trying to bring back the Middle Ages. Trying to remake the past.

  Drew Hamilton : Why should anyone want to hold back the future?

  John Andrew MacDonald : Because the whole idea of the future is a fuller, richer life for more people. These fellows are afraid that more for the many means less for the few. So, they try to put back the clock.

• John Andrew MacDonald : When the Nazis came and took over, they found that Margaret's father was a stubborn man. He had the idea that a doctor is dedicated to humanity and that when a man calls to bind up his wounds, he does not let him bleed while he questions his political beliefs.

• John Andrew MacDonald : Let me love you in my own way.

  Elizabeth Hamilton : Let you love me in your own crazy way.

• John Andrew MacDonald : It's wonderful to have been loved so much - and to be so remembered.

• Dr. Ludwig : For me, you are not only a man, you are mankind. You do not want to live. Very well. But, what I learn from you will one day help me to heal men who do want to live.

  John Andrew MacDonald : I want to die. To die.

• John Andrew MacDonald : Give me something to finish it, won't you?

  Dr. Ludwig : Oh, I...

  John Andrew MacDonald : That's not much to ask.

  Dr. Ludwig : You must be quiet.

  John Andrew MacDonald : At home they'd shoot a dog that had been smashed by a truck. Why don't you let me die?

• Dr. Ludwig : Life can still be good.

  John Andrew MacDonald : You mean, I have my eyes, but, no face.

  Dr. Ludwig : My friend, there's such a thing as plastic surgery. We can give you a face. But, what we cannot give you - is a name.

  John Andrew MacDonald : Stop asking me who I am and do what you please with me. Give me any name you like.

• John Andrew MacDonald : I can't get over the feeling that I'm in a dream. The music, the dancing, the gay young people.

• John Andrew MacDonald : It's wonderful when you're young, isn't it? When everything is so important.

• Elizabeth Hamilton : Every time I look at you I think to myself, a man like you killed my husband.

  John Andrew MacDonald : That's quite true.

• John Andrew MacDonald : You, yourself are not free. You're chained to the past. And the past, with all its good - and its bad, is beyond our reach. Its gone. All gone. We must learn to forget it. You and I. And all of us. The world. We must live for tomorrow. Because - tomorrow is forever.

• John Andrew MacDonald : A soldier fires a bullet, who can say what mark it finds.

• John Andrew MacDonald : You want a gay, carefree youth.