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Which character in "The English Patient" said...

So you think you are a fan of "The English Patient." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. It's still there, the cannon, outside the museum. It was made of metal cups and bowls taken from every household in the city as tax, then melted down. Then later they fired the cannon at my people - comma - The natives - full stop. [reading from w:Herodotus to Almásy]

  2. I'm not one of the walking wounded. It's only one night. Besides, if I remain it's the most effective method of persuading my husband to abandon whatever he's doing and come and rescue us.

  3. A very… plum… plum.

  4. Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed. [to Hana]

  5. Its probably none of my businessâ€" your wife… do you think it is appropriate to leave her?

  6. Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent. . . to her cooking. [to Kip]

  7. (?) I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces.

  8. I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]

  9. Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not. [to Almásy]

  10. In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?

  11. (?) We didn't care about countries did we? Brits, Arabs, Hungarians, Germans. None of that mattered, did it? It was something finer than that.

  12. I've been thinkingâ€"how does someone like you decide to come to the desert? [to Almásy]