“Or me lying in the… Let me tell ya… Lying in bed the next day, she brought me cafe au lait, she gives me a cigarette. My balls feel like concrete. Eh?”

—  David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross (1993), Richard Roma

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