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Citizen Kane - Double Identity Lyrics by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

Citizen Kane

1941

[Charles Foster Kane]
The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who has 82,634 shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1,000 dollars. On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer! As such, it's my duty - and I'll let you in on a little secret, it's also my pleasure - to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just because - they haven't anybody to look after their interests. (Mr. Thatcher rose to get his coat and hat)
I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. Thatcher. I think I'm the man to do it. You see, I have money and property. If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will. Maybe somebody without any money or property. And that would be too bad.
(Thatcher reminded Kane he had seen his financial statement that his philanthropic paper enterprise was losing a million dollars a year.)
You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place... in sixty years.
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Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

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