Dominic Di Grasso quotes from The White Lotus

God. It just seems like the body would naturally stop getting horny once you're past the age of procreation, you know? Like at 50, you would just stop.

Dominic Di Grasso

Fifty? Fifty's not that old.

It just seems undignified.

I'm still virile, by the way. I could still impregnate a woman.

Dominic Di Grasso

Oh.

No girl should have to be exposed to an old guy's junk.

It's not like it was ever so beautiful to look at anyway. I mean, it's a penis. It's not a sunset.

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Your mistake was being sloppy.

Dominic Di Grasso

What are we talking about?

That's what's unforgivable. A man does what he has to do. But you keep it tight. If you're sloppy, it's like you're rubbing her face in it. Bad form.

Dominic Di Grasso

Thanks for the tip. You know, I don't think you were as discreet as you think you were regarding your own affairs.

Affairs. They weren't affairs, they were nothing. They were peccadilloes.

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They own a house where they shot the best American movie ever made.

No, it's not.

No? Why not? I think so.

Well, yeah, I mean, you would.

All right, what's that supposed to mean?

It's because you're nostalgic for the solid days of the patriarchy.

Dominic Di Grasso

They're undeniably great movies.

Men love The Godfather because they feel emasculated by modern society. It's a fantasy about a time when they could go out and solve all their problems with violence and sleep with every woman... And then come home to their wife who doesn't ask them any questions and makes them pasta.

Hey, hey, hey. It's a normal male fantasy.

No, movies like that socialize men into having that fantasy.

Dominic Di Grasso

Movies like that exist because men already do have that fantasy. We're hard-wired.

Mm. Comes with the testosterone.

No. Gender is a construct. It's created.

You spent all that money on Stanford, he comes back brainwashed.

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You can't really be surprised, can you?

Dominic Di Grasso

By what?

Well, that he's running around with an escort.

Dominic Di Grasso

What do you mean?

You've normalized it for him.

Dominic Di Grasso

Right, like you normalized it for me.

Oh, I never ran around with hookers.

Dominic Di Grasso

I don't run around with hookers either.

Dom. Didn't you run around with that exact hooker? You gave her the key to my room.

Dominic Di Grasso

You know the reason I am the way I am is because of you.

You're blaming me for your situation? That's rich.

Dominic Di Grasso

Do you think you were so discrete? Do you? I mean, how many nights did I hear Mom cry herself to sleep? Get real. Everybody knew, Dad. Everybody knew. Everybody knew.

We had a great marriage.

Dominic Di Grasso

Oh, my God. You are deluded. You made her life hell my entire childhood. Do you have amnesia?

If I made her life hell, why'd she stay with me?

Dominic Di Grasso

I have no idea. She didn't know any better. She was a martyr. I don't know.

She loved me.

Dominic Di Grasso

She was a bitter woman. And she died a bitter woman, and she knew about everything you did. Believe me. You were just too self-involved to even notice that. Yeah, and you know what, I... I don't blame you for my situation, but I sure fucking could. Because you never... showed me how to love a woman. You never... showed me how to be intimate. You never showed me how to put others first. You always put yourself first. Always. So I did the same thing.

I loved your mother. And she loved me.

Dominic Di Grasso

It's not that simple.

Yes, it is.

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Dominic Di Grasso

No wonder they all left. Who would I have been if I lived here?