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Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem"):
It isn't my body that's sick. It's my soul. For the first time in my life I've viewed the horrible pit into which I've tumbled: the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties, base motives, that have made up my useless existence! Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf"):
I wasn't gonna tell you, Soapy, but I got 30 cents a lady give me. I'll buy ya a beer. Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem"):
It isn't beer that I need. It's hope, faith, the assurance that it's still not too late to pull myself out of the mire - to make a man of myself again, to conquer the evil that's taken possession of me!
It isn't my body that's sick. It's my soul. For the first time in my life I've viewed the horrible pit into which I've tumbled: the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties, base motives, that have made up my useless existence! Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf"):
I wasn't gonna tell you, Soapy, but I got 30 cents a lady give me. I'll buy ya a beer. Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem"):
It isn't beer that I need. It's hope, faith, the assurance that it's still not too late to pull myself out of the mire - to make a man of myself again, to conquer the evil that's taken possession of me!
Full Transcript
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It isn't my body that's sick It's my soul
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For the first time in my life
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I've viewed the horrible pit into which I've tumbled
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the degraded days unworthy desires
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dead hopes wrecked faculties base motives
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that have made up my useless existence Sobbing
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I wasn't gonna tell you Soapy but I got 30 cents a lady give me
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I'll buy ya a beer It isn't beer that I need
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It's hope faith
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the assurance that it's still not too late to pull myself out of the mire
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to make a man of myself again
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to conquer the evil that's taken possession of me
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Movie Summary
John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.

