Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

(Script by Charlie Kaufman)

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CLEMENTINE
 And, anyway, you sell yourself short.  I
 can tell.  There's a lot of stuff going
 on in your brain.  I can tell.  My
 goal... can I tell you my goal?

  JOEL
 Yeah.

  CLEMENTINE
  (ala Paul Simon)
 What's the goal, Joel?
  (laughs)
 My goal, Joel, is to just let it flow
 through me?  Do you know what I mean?
 It's like, there's all these emotions and
 ideas and they come quick and they change
 and they leave and they come back in a
 different form and I think we're all
 taught we should be consistent.  Y'know?
 You love someone -- that's it.  Forever.
 You choose to do something with your life
 -- that's it, that's what you do.  It's a
 sign of maturity to stick with that and
 see things through.  And my feeling is
 that's how you die, because you stop
 listening to what is true, and what is
 true is constantly changing.  You know?

  JOEL
 Yeah.  I think so.  It's hard to --