Elmer Gantry
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:33:00
Sister Sharon! Never did I ever see
anybody handle the cops the way you did.

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All right. What's this terrific idea
you woke up with?

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Yes, well... How would it be if I addressed
your meetin' as a saved businessman?

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I could talk on the hard,
practical dollars-and-cents value

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of Christ in commerce.
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Tom, slacken off that rope. It's too tight.
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By the way, what is
your business? Hold-ups?

:33:24
You're a card. I sell
for Central Appliances.

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- Don't you like your job?
- Why, sure. It's a great life.

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I'm their crack salesman. Only last month
they wanted to make me a junior partner.

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Would you believe that people in 14 states
call me by my first name? Elmer.

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No use kiddin' you, is there?
It's no life at all.

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Filthy, dreary hotel rooms.
Always chasin' trains.

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Always tellin' dirty stories
to keep the buyers laughin'.

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Always the pint bottle
to prove you're a sport.

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That kind of fella's no success at all.
He's just a tramp in a silk shirt.

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Well...
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I could tell the sinners
I'm a... I'm a salesman, just like that.

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I come into one of them...
miserable hotel rooms.

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I'm discouraged.
I got no sales to chalk up.

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Nothin' to read. I'm lonely.
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I'm just dyin' for a drink. Some of them
salesmen drink somethin' terrible.

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And I reach my hand into
a dresser drawer... and what do I find?

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A Gideon Bible. That's what I find.
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Yes. Yes, go on.
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I reached my hand into a dresser drawer,
and I found a Gideon Bible.

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Louder!
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I found a Gideon Bible.
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I was so lonely and miserable,
I might as well have been in hell.

:34:54
I was in hell. I knew
all the salesman's tricks.

:34:58
Why wasn't I rich?
Why wasn't I successful?


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