Leo McKern: Dr. Grogan
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Dr. Grogan : I am a young woman of superior intelligence and some education. I am not in full command of my emotions. What is worse, I have fallen in love with being a victim of fate. Enter a young god. Intelligent, good-looking. Kind. My one weapon is the pity I inspire in him.
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Dr. Grogan : We know more about your fossils on the beach than we do about that girl's mind.
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Dr. Grogan : [quoting Dr. Hartmann's treatise on melancholia] "It was as if her torture had become her delight."
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Dr. Grogan : Do you approve of my telescope?
Charles Henry Smithson : It is most elegant.
Dr. Grogan : I use it to keep an eye out for mermaids.
[laughs]
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Charles Henry Smithson : Palaeontology is my interest. I gather it is not yours.
Dr. Grogan : When we know more of the living, it will be time to pursue the dead.
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Charles Henry Smithson : She has confided the true state of her mind to no one?
Dr. Grogan : She has not.
Charles Henry Smithson : But if she did? I mean, if she could bring herself - to speak?
Dr. Grogan : She would be cured. But she does not want to be cured.
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Dr. Grogan : Do you wish to hear her? Do you wish to see her? Do you wish to touch her?
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Dr. Grogan : [placing his hand on Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species"] Nothing that has been said in this room tonight, or that remains to be said, will go beyond these walls.
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Dr. Grogan : I have known many prostitutes. I hasten to add, in pursuance of my own profession, not theirs. And I wish I had a guinea for every one of them I have heard gloat over the fact that their victims were husbands and fathers.
