Poll: How to Lose a Lover in 2 Hours

Results of 1,589 votes:

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   The War of the Roses (1989)

    

   "How do you hold onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?"
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   Blue Valentine (2010)

    

   "Look, I didn't want to be somebody's husband and I didn't want to be somebody's dad. That wasn't my... goal in life."
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   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

    

   "Martha, in my mind you're buried in cement right up to the neck. No, up to the nose, it's much quieter."
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   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

    

   "Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties?"
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   Dial M for Murder (1954)

    

   "It's funny to think that just a year ago, I sat in that Knightsbridge Pub actually planning to murder her."
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   Revolutionary Road (2008)

    

   "What the hell are you doing in my house if you hate me so much? Why the hell are you married to me?"
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   Audition (1999)

    

   "Words create lies. Pain can be trusted."
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   Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

    

   "Mommy stayed here longer than she wanted because she loves you so much. And the reason why Mommy couldn't stay anymore... was because she couldn't stand me."
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   The Break-Up (2006)

    

   "I just don't know how we got here. Our entire relationship, I have gone above and beyond for you, for us [...] And I just don't feel like you appreciate any of it. I don't feel you appreciate me…
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    Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

     

    SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
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    Bitter Moon (1992)

     

    "She came to see me when I got out of Intensive Care. She said, there's bad news and there's good news. You're paralyzed from the waist down - permanently. OK, I said, let's have the good news. T…
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    Babel (2006)

     

    "-What about you? How many wives do you have? -
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    Ruthless People (1986)

     

    "The last time we spoke you said my wife would be in the morgue if I didn't pay. Well, I didn't pay and just today I was at the morgue and she wasn't there. You lied to me!"
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    The Painted Veil (2006)

     

    "I knew you only married me to get as far away from your mother as possible."
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

     

    "I'm not living with you! We occupy the same cage, that's all."
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    The Lion in Winter (1968)

     

    "What shall we hang... the holly, or each other?"
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    Runaway Bride (1999)

     

    "When I was walking down the aisle, I was walking toward somebody who didn't have any idea who I really was. And it was only half the other person's fault, because I had done everything to convin…
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    The First Wives Club (1996)

     

    "You know something? You never listen. For twenty years you never ever listened."
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    Damage (1992)

     

    "She didn't see me. She was with Peter. She was holding a child. She was no different from anyone else."
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    The Stepford Wives (2004)

     

    "- Because I didn't marry something from RadioShack. - -
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    Divorce Italian Style (1961)

     

    DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
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    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

     

    "Guy marries one sister, doesn't work out, many years later he winds up married to the other sister."
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    The Way We Were (1973)

     

    "What's going to change? What's going to be different? We'll both be wrong, we'll both lose. "
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    Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

     

    "Any man who marries when he can be free is a fool!"
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    The Age of Innocence (1993)

     

    "I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?"
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    Alexandra's Project (2003)

     

    "There's nothing here that a little Prozac wouldn't fix."
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    Irreconcilable Differences (1984)

     

    "That bimbo stole my husband! They drank their lover's wine in glasses I stood in line to buy!"
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    Shoot the Moon (1982)

     

    "- I'm not kind anymore. - - -
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    Adam's Rib (1949)

     

    "And when did you stop loving your wife? Tell the truth."
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    What's New Pussycat (1965)

     

    "There is a man cheating on his wife in room Lola Montez. There is a woman cheating on her two husbands in Carlotta."
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    Two for the Road (1967)

     

    "- What kind of people just sit like that without a word to say to each other? -
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    Under the Volcano (1984)

     

    "One cannot live without love."