An American Christmas Carol (1979 TV Movie)
Henry Winkler: Benedict Slade
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Quotes
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Benedict Slade : [after watching his younger self make a deal with Jack Latham] Yup, that's me! I always moved in when the moment was good. I could always smell a good business deal.
Ghost of Christmas Past : So could Latham. Look where he ended up.
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Benedict Slade : I know this place. I've never been here before. Why does it look so familiar?
Ghost of Christmas Present : A picture, maybe?
Benedict Slade : On my office wall. My... employee... over his desk...
Ghost of Christmas Present : Your former employee. Remember?
Benedict Slade : He deserved to be fired. Disagrees with everything I do. Conspires with others to pull money out of me. Who needs someone like that around?
Ghost of Christmas Present : There are three in here who do.
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Benedict Slade : [seeing an overgrown gravesite] Wait, wait. There is something about this place. Something draws me right to it. The monument looks fairly new, and yet, neglected.
Ghost of Christmas Future : No one visits that grave.
Benedict Slade : Not ever?
Ghost of Christmas Future : Not ever.
Benedict Slade : To lie in a grave, un-loved and un-remembered, is as if the life was never lived.
Ghost of Christmas Future : That is the only... real death.
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Jack Latham : Hell's not what you think it is, Ben. Fire, sulfur, devils with pitchforks, none of that.
Benedict Slade : Thank God.
Jack Latham : It's worse. It's living in all your past, all the time, forever. There's a politician who sits in a room with all his speeches blaring at the same time-no earplugs, either. And a king who has to keep staring at the faces of men he sent to war.