The Duel (I) (2016)

Woody Harrelson: Abraham

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• Abraham : [in a foreign language]  You were sent here for me. I will not let you go.

  David Kingston : What does that mean?

  Abraham : "I'll embrace your company while I have it."

• Abraham : I've known for quite some time you'd be coming for me, David. I took pleasure in killing your father. He was an abhorrent man.

  David Kingston : If you think I'm here to avenge my father, you think too highly of yourself.

• Abraham : God made this world, Jesse, and it pains me little to send you from it.

• Abraham : [visiting Marisol]  Dark eyes. They say the eyes provide a direct window to the soul. Yours have seen a good deal of man at his worst. You hold tight to it. But are we not all born into sin, anger, violence, jealousy, desire? We cannot separate ourselves from sin any more than we would sever a limb from our bodies. Besides, anger is instructive. Jealousy, understandable. Lust, perfectly natural.

  [moving to her side of the table] 

  Abraham : I can see that my words are not lost on you, Marisol. It is refreshing.

  [clasping his hands around her on her coffee cup] 

  Abraham : So few these days possess any openness of mind. But if I may, Marisol, this veil that you wear offers only false comfort. Remove it. God knows who you really are.

• Abraham : Fascinating culture, the Chinese. They say they are trapped in the samsara - ever-changing world of good and evil. If they don't take control of their desires, they are subject to great suffering in this life and the next. I didn't have the heart to tell them that heathens be damned to hell regardless.

  David Kingston : What desires could they possibly find out here?

• David Kingston : Short time I've been here, I've seen Englishmen and now Chinamen.

  Abraham : Curious, no?

  David Kingston : And yet I haven't seen a single Mexican man or woman. We aren't but a few miles from Mexico. Why is that?

  Abraham : Perhaps they're scared.

  David Kingston : Why would they be scared?

• Abraham : You should thank me for taking your father. You were born that day. If he raised you, you would not be the man you've become. Our entire lives spent denying death its dominion. Seems its answer for us will be... Painful and slow. We deserve it for all we've done. Futile to toil over such things. Forces you to look inward and examine the monster you truly are.

  David Kingston : Don't go exempting yourself. You'll answer the same as everyone else.

  Abraham : David, I was never born, nor will I ever truly die.

  David Kingston : Aw, you'll die, all right. You'll die right here.

• Abraham : [to David]  I made you. And so I end you.

• David Kingston : You strike me as an educated man.

  Abraham : I've managed to fool you.

  David Kingston : You hide it from your eyes well, but it sits on your shoulders plain as day. You are a man in search of something. Perhaps absolution.

  Abraham : You don't strike me as the type to hide his meaning in vocabulary.