The Chalk Garden (1964)
Deborah Kerr: Miss Madrigal
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Mrs. St. Maugham : [on the verge of tears] Is it a crime to want to be remembered?
Miss Madrigal : No. The Pharaohs built the pyramids for that reason.
Mrs. St. Maugham : What do women do in my case?
Miss Madrigal : It wouldn't hurt to go on gardening.
Mrs. St. Maugham : Have I've a muddle of my garden... and my heart? Will Olivia forgive me?
Miss Madrigal : In time, perhaps.
Mrs. St. Maugham : Would you stay with me? Would you?
Miss Madrigal : I'll stay... as long as I'm wanted. You know, we could make this place so full of life - a good life - and people would come from everywhere to see us. What do you think?
Mrs. St. Maugham : I must know one thing.
Miss Madrigal : What's that?
Mrs. St. Maugham : Did you do it?
Miss Madrigal : What many learned men at the top of their profession couldn't find out after a long, long trial. Why should you know.
Mrs. St. Maugham : Forty years ago, I should have said the same thing, but I warn you, before I die, I'll find out.
[the two walk off together]
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Anna : They say five have left already.
Miss Madrigal : Really?
Anna : There must be something terribly frightening in this house!
Laurel : That sounds like a perfect description of me!
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Miss Madrigal : The heart is a house with a room for every person it loves.
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Maitland : What will you do now?
Miss Madrigal : Continue to explore the astonishment of living.
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Maitland : You're not the usual thing in governesses, are you?
Miss Madrigal : Are you the usual thing in servants?
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Miss Madrigal : Laurel has good instincts. I think I time they will serve her well.
Mrs. St. Maugham : Miss Madrigal. I did not engage you as a fortune-teller.
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Laurel : Oh, if I could only be somewhere other than where I am, someone other than who I am!
Miss Madrigal : There now, where and what do you want to be?
Laurel : Dead... and in Hell!