Good dialogue is important to me, both in writing and reading. That said, I can't rattle off passages from books or movie quotes from memory. I can tell you what a good character might say, but not always what she did say.
Good characters are dynamic. Pinning them down to a line or two said in a previous book or episode seems to place more value on the speech than the characters. This may sound strange coming from a writer, but I like to get to know characters so well that any one thing they may say at any point in time doesn't matter as much as the whole.
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That's what he meant when he said, "It's not the years... it's the MILEAGE!"
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