The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Kick the Can (1962)
Ernest Truex: Charles Whitley
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Quotes
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Charles Whitley : Maybe, the fountain of youth isn't a fountain at all. Maybe, it's a way of looking at things - a way of thinking.
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Charles Whitley : [referring to their childhood] You believed in magic then.
Ben Conroy : Me? Magic!
Charles Whitley : Yes, you did! When we walked on different sides of a street lamp you'd say 'bread and butter'. And when your baby teeth came out, you put 'em under the pillow for the tooth fairy. Yeah, you believed in magic.
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Charles Whitley : Well, maybe you gotta be a little crazy to make the magic work!
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Charles Whitley : [addressing his fellow senior housemates] Are you the same ones that used to skip rope - and hunt for polliwogs? Huh? And run through sprinklers - huh?
[sees the lawn sprinkler running]
Charles Whitley : Run through sprinklers.
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Charles Whitley : What a choice - to keep an attendant from pawing at my pulse all day, I have to sit like a vegetable on that porch.