# The most legendary lines from «Amanece, que no es poco»

José Luis Cuerda's 1989 cult film, shot in the hills of Albacete, flopped at the box office and became the most quoted comedy in Spanish cinema. Its absurd lines, one by one.

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- Feb 12, 2020 · Lucía Arroyo Hidalgo
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## Top 10

1. **Mayor, we are all contingent, but you are necessary!** (19 · ▲19 ▼0) — The villagers acclaiming the mayor, the film's most famous line.
2. **By order of the priest, it is hereby announced that God is one and triune.** (16 · ▲17 ▼1) — The village crier's proclamation.
3. **He's dying divinely on me.** (15 · ▲15 ▼0) — The doctor, in admiration, at a villager dying with style.
4. **I've been thinking I'd also like to be an intellectual, since I've got nothing to lose.** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — One of the villagers jumping on the village's intellectual craze.
5. **I could have been a legend. Or an epic, if a few of us got together.** (9 · ▲14 ▼5) — One of the village's most absurd reflections.
6. **And now they tell me you've written «Light in August», Faulkner's novel, William Faulkner's!** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — The complaint against a villager who claims to have written Faulkner's novel.
7. **Grant us, saints in heaven, a fairly approximate global vision.** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — The parish's most modern prayer.
8. **I can't answer you, I'm a very primal man, terribly subject to the passions.** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — The perfect excuse not to answer.
9. **You see, madam, I wanted to talk to you about Dostoevsky.** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — The most unexpected way to start a conversation.
10. **A man in bed is always a man in bed.** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — One of the indisputable truths of Cuerda's script.
11. **Damn the mystery!** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — The outburst the whole village repeats.
12. **You can say what you want, Doña Remedios, but it is not normal for you to give birth ten minutes after finishing the act.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Express delivery dialogue, one of the most absurd moments in the film.
13. **Pumpkin, I carry you in my heart.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Another cult phrase from "Amanece, que no es poco", collected in Wikiquote.
14. **Look, son, a civil guard who is chasing each other!** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — One of the many absurdities of the town in the film by José Luis Cuerda (1988).
15. **Well, having my own business has stopped me from being a man of action, and I have not lacked weapons.** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Lament of one of the town's residents in Cuerda's film.

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