
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Dixon Steele · Humphrey Bogart's screenwriter in In a Lonely Place (1950) · The source reads: “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” · The screenwriter Dixon Steele's lines for his own script, which he recites to Laurel and which end the film after she has left him; the popular form turns his "she" to "you."
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