Secrets & Lies (1996)
Timothy Spall: Maurice
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Quotes
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Maurice : Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!
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Maurice : She can't help it; she never had enough love
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Monica Purley : Can't miss what you never had!
Maurice : Can't you?
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Maurice : Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.
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[repeated line]
Maurice : Lovely!
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Maurice : Is that a suit?
Monica Purley : It came as a combination.
Maurice : They go together?
Monica Purley : Well, if you think they do, they do, and if you think they don't, they don't.
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Maurice : My dad never said a word about my mum after she died.
Monica Purley : That's men for you.
Maurice : I hated him for it. He must have been in real pain. Maybe just couldn't share it. I didn't know what I felt. I still don't.
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Maurice : Life isn't fair, is it? Someone always draws the short straw.
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Hortense Cumerbatch : You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.
Maurice : That's true.
Monica Purley : Can you?
Jane : Windows to your soul.
Cynthia : That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.
Jane : It's true though, ain't it.