Joe Orton - Man Quotes

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Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?
Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.
Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.
Truscott: I've been exposed before.
Fay: What happened?
Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.

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Rance: How shocking! His abnormal condition has driven him to seek refuge in religion. Always the last ditch stand of a man on the brink of disaster.

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Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.
Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.

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Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.
Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.

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McLeavy: Has no one considered my feelings in all this?
Truscott: What percentage do you want?
McLeavy: I don't want money. I'm an honest man.
Truscott: You'll have to mend your ways then.

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