ABC Stage 67 (TV Series)
Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins: Charles Snell
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Quotes
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Charles Snell : What goes on here?
Roscoe Potts : Life, my boy. And death, of course. You can't have one without the other.
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Charles Snell : They're nice people, aren't they? A little odd, I'll grant you that, but after forty years in this place, I expect I'll be a little odd myself.
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Charles Snell : Harkins, who are these dark men?
Ella Harkins : There's a famous mortuary in Manhattan. Journey's End, I think it's called.
Charles Snell : Yeah, I've heard of it.
Ella Harkins : Well, people live there, just like here.
Charles Snell : Live in a mortuary? Well, how can they? What... What do they live on?
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Charles Snell : Were you born here?
Ella Harkins : No, I came when I was six.
Charles Snell : That's amazing. You renounced the world when you were six!
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Charles Snell : You haven't seen the sun for 13 years?
Ella Harkins : Oh, don't pity me. I have my memories.
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Ella Harkins : I can't read or write, I don't know what the world is...
Charles Snell : What? You can't read or write?
Ella Harkins : I never finished kindergarten.
Charles Snell : Oh, that's wonderful! I'll teach you, like Pygmalion!
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Ella Harkins : We don't dare see each other again, it's too dangerous. They're watching us!
Charles Snell : I don't see anybody.
Ella Harkins : You never can. They watch in secret ways!
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Roscoe Potts : Charles, she's not one of us.
Charles Snell : Well, why not? She lives here, doesn't she?
Roscoe Potts : We keep her in the bargain basement, Seconds and Rejects department.
Charles Snell : You keep her? Is the girl a prisoner?