Quills (2000)
Kate Winslet: Madeleine
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Quotes
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Madeleine : If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.
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Madeleine : Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference.
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Madeleine : You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?
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Madeleine : Your publisher says I'm not to leave without another manuscript.
Marquis de Sade : I've just the story. It's the unhappy tale... of a virginal laundry lass. The darling of the lower wards where they entomb the criminally insane.
Madeleine : Is it awfully violent?
Marquis de Sade : Most assuredly.
Madeleine : Is it terribly erotic?
Marquis de Sade : Fiendishly so. But it comes with a price. A kiss for each page.
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Madeleine : [reading from a page] His greast conquest was a woman six decades his senior, and a dozen years deceased. He made love with such vigor that it dislodged her bones, and yet he afforded her the highest compliment he afforded any woman.
[long, suspenseful pause]
Madame LeClerc : Well, go on!
Madeleine : "Well worth the dig!"
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Madeleine : He's a writer, not a madman.
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Madeleine : Don't come any closer Abbe, God's watching.