Very Close Quarters (1984)
Merwin Goldsmith: Boris
Quotes
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Boris : [narration] This is our communal flat in Moscow. We have 31 people living here. We share one bathroom, one kitchen, one toilet, and one telephone. I ask you, is this a way to live?
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Pavel : You know, I was reading in Scientific Soviet the other day, every person spends a year and a half, to two years of his life on the can.
Boris : So?
Pavel : So, it's a waste. Some day our scientists will invent a portable device and eliminate the toilet altogether.
Senile Woman : The toilet doesn't eliminate, we eliminate in the toilet.
Boris : No, eliminate, no eliminate the waste of time.
Pavel : In all of time there's be quite a lot of waste to eliminate.
Boris : Eliminate the waste of time on the can!
Senile Woman : You're wasting my time.
Senile Woman : Your time *is* waste.
Pavel : It's a lot of shit!
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Boris : Let's set a time-limit on going to the bathroom. Yes a time-limit, three minutes for children, five minutes for adults.
Irina : Seven, seven for women.
Boris : Ah, who asked you?
Irina : Ten if it's our time of the month.
Boris : A man must read the newspaper every day. And there's only one place to do it!