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Goddamn it, I knew I should've listened to my mother. I could've been a cosmetic surgeon, five hundred thou a year, up to my neck in tits and ass.
— Romancing the Stone · 1984
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker swears in frustration, admitting they should have heeded their mother. They imagine a lucrative career as a cosmetic surgeon, earning five hundred thousand a year while surrounded by breasts and buttocks. The regret is bitter, comic and crudely mercenary.
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