Metropolitan (1989)
Ellia Thompson: Serena Slocum
Quotes
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Serena Slocum : I didn't save your letters but I didn't throw them away.
Tom Townsend : I don't understand, is that a riddle?
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Tom Townsend : You threw away all the letters I wrote you?
Serena Slocum : I throw away nearly everything. I don't want to go through the rest of my life with the mail I got when I was 16.
Tom Townsend : I'm surprised. Someone goes through the trouble of writing you a real letter, I save it. People don't write many personal letters anymore.
Serena Slocum : People in boarding school do.
Tom Townsend : And what if someone who wrote you becomes famous? Those letters could be the only record of what they were thinking at that time. Crucial for their biographers.
Serena Slocum : Anybody who writes me who expects to become famous should keep carbons.
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Serena Slocum : There was a girl at school who had some kind of crush on you. She came into my room when I was throwing things out, so I gave her your letters.
Tom Townsend : Really?
Serena Slocum : I know it sounds queer.
Tom Townsend : She kept them?
Serena Slocum : Uhm, I'm sure.
Tom Townsend : Kind of strange. She must be really odd.
Serena Slocum : No, she's very nice. In fact, you know her: Audrey Roget.
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Serena Slocum : Things are definitely over with Rick. With some relationships, the breaking up is easier to understand than how you got involved in the first place.