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Hi, I need a little bit of help from you guys. I'm writing an essay in which I have to reference Watchmen. I know exactly what quotes I want to use, but my copy of the actual book is currently in another state, so I cannot get the exact quotes. If anyone could help, I would appreciate it.

Needless to say, spoilers ahead (though I don't know why you would read this thread if you had not read Watchmen).

The first quote I need is in Dr Manhattan's flashback to the Vietnam War. The Comedian just shot a woman, and I need their conversation after that point.

The next two quotes I need are from Dr Manhattan and Lori's discussion on Mars. The first one is from the beginning where he describes why he does not want to help Earth. The second is from the very end, when he has his epiphany. I need the epiphany itself, as well as the conversation just a bit before and after it.

Thank you in advance.
 

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The Comedian "Medic. Gotta find the diddamn medic. Owww. That *****."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Blake. She was Pregnant. You gunned her down."

The Comedian "Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Pregnant woman. Gunned her down. Bang. And y'know what?"

[next panel]

The Comedian "You wached me. You coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullet into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! You coulda teleported either of us to goddamn Australia...... but you didn't lift a finger!"

[next panel]
The Comdian "You don't really give a damn about human beings. I've watched you. You can never cared about whatsername, Jane Sl;ater even before you ditched her. Soon you won't be interested in Sally Jupiter's little gal, either.

[next panel]
The Comedian " You're drifin' otta touch, doc. You're turnin' into a flake. God hel us all.

Is this the right scene you want?
Dr Manhatten "You mean that you're sleeping with Dreiberg?"

[next panel]
Laurie "B--but... You already know. I mean, you said..."

Dr Manhatten "I said. Often, that you were're my only link. My only concern with the world. When you left me, I left Earth. Does that not say something?"
[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Now you replaced me, and that link is shattered. Don't you see what that means? Didn't you see the futility of asking me to save a world that I no longer have any stake in?"

Dr Manhatten "Laurie? Are you alright?"

Laurie " Of course not! Blake, that bastard, and my m-mother, they pull a gag on me is what they did! My whole life's a joke. One big, stupid, meaningless... aw shit..."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Don't think your life's meaningless"

Laurie " Oh no, well, obviously that what you're going to say because anything I'm stupid enough to belive is true, you just disagree with it and......uh..."

[next panel]
Laurie "You don't?"

[next panel]

Dr Manhatten "No."

Laurie "But... listen, you're just been saying life is meaningless so how can...?"

Dr Manhatten "I changed my mind."

[next panel]
Laurie "But why?"

Dr Manhatten "Thermo-dyanamic mirales... Events with odds against so astronomical they're efeectively impossisble, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son- that exact daughter..."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "...Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, what emerged. To distil so specific a form from that chaos of improvavlity like turing air into gold... that is crowning unlikelyhood."

[next panel]
Laurie "But... if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynaic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!"

Dr Manhatten "Yes. Anybody in the world."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "...But the world is so full of people. So crowed with mircles that they become commonplace and we forget. I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in your preceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."

Bare in mind I didn't bolded the words that were in the sentences unless you need the quoted to be exactly from the speak bubbles.
 

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Scarim Coral said:
The Comedian "Medic. Gotta find the diddamn medic. Owww. That *****."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Blake. She was Pregnant. You gunned her down."

The Comedian "Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Pregnant woman. Gunned her down. Bang. And y'know what?"

[next panel]

The Comedian "You wached me. You coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullet into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! You coulda teleported either of us to goddamn Australia...... but you didn't lift a finger!"

[next panel]
The Comdian "You don't really give a damn about human beings. I've watched you. You can never cared about whatsername, Jane Sl;ater even before you ditched her. Soon you won't be interested in Sally Jupiter's little gal, either.

[next panel]
The Comedian " You're drifin' otta touch, doc. You're turnin' into a flake. God hel us all.

Is this the right scene you want?
Dr Manhatten "You mean that you're sleeping with Dreiberg?"

[next panel]
Laurie "B--but... You already know. I mean, you said..."

Dr Manhatten "I said. Often, that you were're my only link. My only concern with the world. When you left me, I left Earth. Does that not say something?"
[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Now you replaced me, and that link is shattered. Don't you see what that means? Didn't you see the futility of asking me to save a world that I no longer have any stake in?"

Dr Manhatten "Laurie? Are you alright?"

Laurie " Of course not! Blake, that bastard, and my m-mother, they pull a gag on me is what they did! My whole life's a joke. One big, stupid, meaningless... aw shit..."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "Don't think your life's meaningless"

Laurie " Oh no, well, obviously that what you're going to say because anything I'm stupid enough to belive is true, you just disagree with it and......uh..."

[next panel]
Laurie "You don't?"

[next panel]

Dr Manhatten "No."

Laurie "But... listen, you're just been saying life is meaningless so how can...?"

Dr Manhatten "I changed my mind."

[next panel]
Laurie "But why?"

Dr Manhatten "Thermo-dyanamic mirales... Events with odds against so astronomical they're efeectively impossisble, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son- that exact daughter..."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "...Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, what emerged. To distil so specific a form from that chaos of improvavlity like turing air into gold... that is crowning unlikelyhood."

[next panel]
Laurie "But... if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynaic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!"

Dr Manhatten "Yes. Anybody in the world."

[next panel]
Dr Manhatten "...But the world is so full of people. So crowed with mircles that they become commonplace and we forget. I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in your preceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."

Bare in mind I didn't bolded the words that were in the sentences unless you need the quoted to be exactly from the speak bubbles.
That's exactly what I needed, thank you.