Courage for Every Day (1964)

Jan Kacer: delník Jarda Lukas

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• [first lines] 

  delník Jarda Lukas : Every day, we are touching both great loves and great hatreds, and if you lose, even for a moment, that which you truly love, you cannot avoid the idea that you are also losing a part of your life, that an inner flame is irreversibly dying in you, that an indispensable tone is forever being silenced in you.

• aranzérka Vera : Hey, you know what? Walk on the rooftop. Tomcats in love always walk on rooftops.

  delník Jarda Lukas : But I'm no tomcat.

  aranzérka Vera : You're not? Then what are you?

• delník Jarda Lukas : Happiness and desperation, even though they affect us in very different ways, are close to each other in that neither a happy nor a desperate person is able to transcend oneself. If, in a moment of happiness, we think that happiness does not last forever, then where has our happiness gone? Only those who can glimpse a narrow beam of hope in the depth of their desperation are certain not to say: "I have lost."

• delník Jarda Lukas : I'm the workhorse who's doing all the work with nothing to show for it.

  Redaktor : Aren't we all?

• delník Jarda Lukas : You see how I am. I slave away and do my best - and then nobody gives a damn.

  aranzérka Vera : You're my wise boy, aren't you?

• delník Jarda Lukas : We know artists. They're show-offs. They're pigs.

• delník Jarda Lukas : We can see that it's not crucial to have the greatest free workforce, but that as many people as possible participate in working.

• delník Jarda Lukas : The main condition for reinforcing duties is, first and foremost, a greater sense of responsibility of all authorities for carrying out the right policies - with an awareness of responsibility for the correct ways, which calls for the interests of our society without formalities and meetings. That, comrades, is what we must all bear in mind.

• delník Jarda Lukas : [drunkenly]  See them? You should shoot them all! They're swine, all of them! They betrayed the revolution.

• delník Jarda Lukas : [drunkenly]  Do you know how they live? They get enough grub to eat and they keep their mouth shut. Eating and drinking beer. See? That's all they like to do.

• aranzérka Vera : Vera. Come on now, Vera.

  delník Jarda Lukas : No. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

  aranzérka Vera : Vera, say yes.

  delník Jarda Lukas : Ouch, where are you touching me? Stop, or your comrades will hear about it!

• delník Jarda Lukas : I don't know. Nothing I do works out.

• delník Jarda Lukas : I'm repulsive, aren't I?

  aranzérka Vera : Yes, you are.

  delník Jarda Lukas : Why do you go out with me?

  aranzérka Vera : Because I'm a fool.

  delník Jarda Lukas : Come here. Don't be mad. Forgive me. It's all so hard.

• delník Jarda Lukas : I'm a lowly animal.

  Olina, redaktorova zena : You're mama's little boy, aren't you?