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	Season 6 / Episode 18: - Little Italy Marilyn Whirlwind: Heard you on the radio. Ruth-Anne Miller: [delighted] Did you? Marilyn Whirlwind: Hope the next one's funnier. Ruth-Anne Miller: [downcast] Well I'll try. Marilyn Whirlwind: Okay. Bye. Ruth-Anne Miller: Bye. Chris Stevens: [entering] Hey, Marilyn. Marilyn Whirlwind: Hi. [exit] Chris Stevens: Hey Ruth-Anne, getting lots of good feedback down at the station. Ruth-Anne Miller: Me too. Chris Stevens: It's funny, some people really dig the thematic subtext. Ruth-Anne Miller: The what?
	Season 6 / Episode 17: - The Graduate Ed Chigliak: [looking through a film catalog] The Italian Straw Hat? Eyes Without a Face? This is gonna be great! Maggie O'Connell: [new owner of the movie theater] Eyes Without a Face. Uh? Ed Chigliak: Yeah. [shows her the catalog] Maggie O'Connell: Oh, French. 1959! You, you really think people are going to respond to that? Ed Chigliak: Oh, yeah, Maggie. Audiences, they get all emotional over plastic surgery stories. It's almost a rule of thumb!
	Season 6 / Episode 17: - The Graduate William Shakespeare: Thus am I slain. Chris Stevens: Oh, Shakes. Shakes. Talk to me. [gives him a cigaret] William Shakespeare: [coughs] 'Tis a far, far better thing I do... Chris Stevens: Shakes - William Shakespeare: Yeah, Sarge? Chris Stevens: That's Dickens.
	Season 6 / Episode 17: - The Graduate Ed Chigliak: Pretty big line out there. I guess 'Forrest Gump' really is more popular than 'Nosferatu'. Maggie O'Connell: Look, I know you meant well, Ed. Ed Chigliak: Oh, it's probably that Tom Hanks. Maggie O'Connell: Yeah, could be. Ed Chigliak: I bet you if Tom Hanks had played Nosferatu, eighty domestic, easy.
	Season 6 / Episode 9: - Sons of the Tundra Maurice J. Minnifield: You know, Phil, I was thinking that, given your background, we could make Cicely the endoscopy capital of the Alaska Riviera. You know, sort of a resort destination for the colo-rectal crowd. You check in, get a colonoscopy, do a little fly-fishing...
	Season 5 / Episode 21: - I Feel the Earth Move Maurice J. Minnifield: Is it me or has the whole world gone stark staring mad? "Mrs Patricia Hillman requests the honor of your presence at the presence of her son Eric Reese Hillman to Ronald Arthur Bantz." Chris Stevens: Arthur? I didn't know he had a middle name. Maurice J. Minnifield: Boy, this whole farce makes a mockery of the covenant of marriage. Chris Stevens: What are you gonna wear?
	Season 5 / Episode 3: - Jaws of Life Maurice J. Minnifield: [Maurice catches Ed talking to his statue] Look, Ed. If you've got something to say, you say it to me. You got that? Ed Chigliak: Okay, Maurice. But, uh - Maurice J. Minnifield: But what? Ed Chigliak: Well, it's just that he's a little easier to talk to. Maurice J. Minnifield: The statue? Ed Chigliak: Well, he doesn't throw my thoughts off like you do sometimes. Maurice J. Minnifield: I don't throw your thoughts off, son! What are you talking about? Ed Chigliak: Well, kind of like now, Maurice. Maurice J. Minnifield: I'm not in the business of throwing people's thoughts off! Is that clear?
	Season 4 / Episode 23: - Mud and Blood Maggie O'Connell: Ed! Look at this plant. Ed Chigliak: OK. [pauses] Doesn't appear to be doing anything unusual, Maggie.
	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Grosse Point, 48230 Elizabeth Stowe, Maggie's Grandmother: Poor Jane, always getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Grosse Point, 48230 Elizabeth Stowe, Maggie's Grandmother: Jeffy, why the sour puss? Pearl McCaffrey: Stephi left Jeffy. Elizabeth Stowe, Maggie's Grandmother: Stephi left Jeffy? Eunice McCaffrey: She forgot her mittens. Elizabeth Stowe, Maggie's Grandmother: Oh. Remind me to send her a thank-you note.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Spring Break Ed Chigliak: Somebody stole Dr. Fleischman's radio. Marilyn Whirlwind: White people. They get crazy.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Spring Break Dr. Joel Fleischman: Yeah I'm upset. Ya wanna know why, Ed? I'll tell you. As a physician, I realize that sexual release is not crucial to survival, say like water or oxygen. But when a healthy 28-year-old male is deprived of that release, he has an awful hard time enjoying his survival.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Spring Break Ruth-Anne Miller: Here's your lingerie magazine. I was just leafing through it. Dr. Joel Fleischman: Thanks. Ruth-Anne Miller: Oh, wait a minute. Uh, you're using that for onanistic purposes, huh? Dr. Joel Fleischman: What? What kind of purposes? Ruth-Anne Miller: Auto-erotic. Dr. Joel Fleischman: Me? No Not at all. Absolutely not! I was just going to order my mom a robe. [flustered] Ruth-Anne Miller: I think you need something a little more exciting. Dr. Joel Fleischman: Exciting? Ruth-Anne Miller: Here's a Playboy. Eli Nute died a month before his subscription expired. Dr. Joel Fleischman: Oh no. Really? [trying not to look interested in the Playboy] Ruth-Anne Miller: Women of Norway. [reading the caption] Dr. Joel Fleischman: Yeah well, I mean a lot of exceptional writers contribute to Playboy. There's Philip Roth, uh, Norman Mailer, the late Roald Dahl. An interview with Shintaro Ishihara? Ruth-Anne Miller: Don't worry Dr. Fleishmann, its that time of year. Everybody's libido has run amok. Dr. Joel Fleischman: They rate the top ten single malt scotches! Now I, uh, wanna read this! Ruth-Anne Miller: I think I've got something for you a little racier in the back room.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Chris Stevens: Soaphy once told me that the thing he loved most about country music was its sense of myth. There's heroes and villains, good and bad, right and wrong. The protagonists strolls into bar, which he sees as a microcosm of the big picture. He contemplates his existence and he asks himself, 'who's that babe in the red dress?'
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Chris Stevens: Well, you know the way I see it, if you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. You know, and I think when you're somewhere you ought to be there, and because it's not about how long you stay in a place. It's about what you do while you're there, and when you go is that place any better for you having been there?
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either-or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness. Stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
	Unknown Episode: Maurice Minnifield: Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like, Holling?
	Unknown Episode: Dr. Joel Fleischman: The only consequence of all this will be, that whenever I open a nice Bordeaux, there will be the distant, distasteful memory of a nutcase who tried to kill me because I allowed her to kiss me on the cheek under false pretenses. I can live with it.
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: In dreams begin responsibilities, so wrote the poet. So it is perhaps. Could it be we take our dreams too lightly, those images from places unknown? Could they in fact be angels in flight, our souls aloft? You know, recent experiences have made yours truly take another pass through the metaphysical thickets. As unlikely as it may sound in this rational age, I emerged on the side of those that cannot help but put their faith in that which cannot be easily explained. Be open to your dreams people. Embrace that distant shore. Cause our mortal journey is over all too soon. "Those cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples. The great globe itself. Yea all which you inherit shall dissolve and like this insubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with asleep."
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
	Unknown Episode: Brad: Are you in detox?
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: Season's Greetings, everybody, from KBHR, the heart and soul of Cicely, Alaska. This is Chris In The Morning. From where I'm sitting, I've got a great view of all the yuletide decorations going up all over town. That's right, everywhere I turn my head I see ebony birds roosting for the holidays. You know, twinkling colored lights are nice, and so are plastic Santas and reindeers and manger scenes, but I'll tell you something, friends... nothing like the sight of beautiful black-as-pitch raven to get you in the Christmas spirit.
	Unknown Episode: Maurice Minnifield: I understand the suicide rate goes up dramatically around Christmastime. Chris Stevens: Yeah, well, you know, it's a stressful time of the year for most people, Maurice. Maurice Minnifield: Yeah. The thing is, you go through the rest of the year fine. You've got your friends, you've got your business, you're part of the community. And then, 'round the middle of December, if you're alone, you start to feel like an outsider.
	Unknown Episode: Maurice Minnifield: You know that's the nature of a family holiday, to make a single man feel disenfranchised. You're made to feel like a hungry vagrant with your nose pressed up against a window staring at somebody else's dinner.
	Unknown Episode: Dr. Joel Fleischman: I don't like it! I hate it, and I demand to leave!... Well that is because you are not the one who is supposed to spend the next 4 years of his life in this Godforsaken hole in the wall, pigsty with a bunch of dirty, psychotic rednecks!
	Unknown Episode: Maggie: The odds are a thousand to one - why would you be the one in a thousand? This is ridiculous - you're not that special.
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
	Unknown Episode: Pete Gilliam: So what we've decided to do is set you up in Cicely, situated in an area that we Alaskans refer to as The Alaskan Riviera.
	Unknown Episode: Maurice Minnifield: This is Cicely. She and Roslyn founded the town 97 years ago. Rumor and innuendo notwithstanding, they were just good friends.
	Unknown Episode: Chris Stevens: They say dreams are the windows of the soul - take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

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