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Jarrett to My Baby
Jarrett, Cody (actor - James Cagney)
"Made it Ma!  Top of the World!"

Movie:  White Heat, 1949

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Jekyll, Doctor Henry
"Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find the courage to release himself at the last
moment?  God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself.  Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."

Novel:  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

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Johnnie
"Turn me over doctor,
Turn me over slow,
I got a bullet in my left hand side,
Great God, it's hurtin' me so.
I was her man, but I done her wrong."

Song: The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie, traditional
  
Juliet, daughter to Capulet
Yea noise?  then I'll be brief.  O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.

Play:  Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 1591?

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Kane, Charles Foster (actor - Orson Welles)
"Rosebud"

Movie:  Citizen Kane, 1941

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Karenina, Anna
"Where am I?  What am I doing?  What for? . . .  Lord, forgive me all!'

Novel:  Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, 1875-77

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Katczinsky "Kat"
"Let us go on."

Novel:  All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 
Movie:  All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930

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Kelly, Midge (Actor - Kirk Douglas)
"Listen, I won a fight!  For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. . . .  Are you deaf; couldn't you hear them?  We're not hitchhiking anymore. . . .we're riding.  Those fat bellies with the big cigars, they aren't going to make a monkey out of me. . . .  I can beat them--you know I can beat them. . . .  Tommy!"

Movie: Champion, 1949

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Kong, Major T. J. "King," (actor - Slim Pickins)
"Yahoo!  Yahoo!"

Movie:  Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964

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Kurtz, Mr.
"The horror!  The horror!"

Novel:  Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 1902

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Kurtz, Colonel Walter E. (actor - Marlon Brando)
"The horror!  The horror!"

Movie:  Apocalypse Now, 1979

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Macbeth
Yet I will try the last:  before my body
I throw my warlike shield:  layon, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries "Hold, enough!"

Play:  Macbeth, William Shakespeare, 1606?

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Magua
"The palefaces are dogs! the Delawares women!  Magua leaves them on the rocks, for the crows!"

Novel:  The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper, 1826

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Maule, Matthew
"God, God will give him blood to drink!"

Novel:  The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

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Messala (actor - Stephen Boyd)
In the movie:  "What do you think you see?  The smashed body of a wretched animal!  Is enough of a man still left here for you to hate? Let me help you. . . .  You think they're dead. Your mother and sister. Dead. And the race over.  It isn't over Judah. They're not dead.  Look for them in the Valley of the Lepers, if you can recognize them.  It goes on.  It goes on Judah.  The race, the race is not over."
In the novel:  Messala does not die

Movie:  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1959 
Novel:  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, General Lew Wallace, 1880

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Miles
"It's he? . . . .  Peter Quint--You devil! . . . .  Where?"

Novelette: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Miller, Captain John (actor - Tom Hanks)
"Earned it."

Movie:  Saving Private Ryan, 1998

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Munro, Cora
"I will go no further! . . .  Kill me if thou wilt, detestable Huron, I will go no further. . . .  I am thine, do with me as thou seest best."

Novel:  The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper, 1826

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My Baby
"Hold me, darling, for a little while."

Song: Last Kiss sung by J. Frank Wilson

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