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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) More at IMDb Pro »

Miranda: What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.

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Marion: A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is probable that they are performing some function unknown to themselves.

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Miranda: Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place.

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Irma: Waiting a million years, just for us.

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Irma: Sara reminds me of a little deer Papa brought home once. I looked after it, but it died. Mama always said it was doomed.

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Mr. Whitehead: There's some questions got answers and some haven't.

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Miss McCraw: This we do for pleasure, so that we may shortly be at the mercy of venomous snakes and poisonous ants. How foolish can human creatures be.

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Miranda: Look! Not down at the ground, Edith. Way up there in the sky.

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Edith: Blanche says Sara writes poetry- in the dunny! She found one there on the floor, all about Miranda.

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Mlle. de Poitiers: Ah! Now I know.
Miss McCraw: What do you know?
Mlle. de Poitiers: I know that Miranda is a Botticelli angel.

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Edith: Why can't we just sit on this log, and look at the ugly old rock from here? It's nasty here. I never thought it would be so nasty, or I wouldn't have come!

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Rosamund: What do you think? Miranda, somebody had the nerve to send Miss McCraw a card on squared paper covered with tiny sums.

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Miranda: You must learn to love someone else, apart from me, Sara. I won't be here much longer.

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Miss Lumley: I believe Mrs. Appleyard's decided you're not to go to the picnic, Sara. That makes two of us.

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Edith: I think I must be doomed. I don't feel at all well.
Marion: I do wish you'd stop talking for once.

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Albert Crundall: I thought the little fat one was gonna take a bath. Some of them are real lookers! Have a look at the shape of the dark one with the curls. Built like an hourglass. And have a guard the last one, the blonde. Oh, she'd have a decent pair of legs- all the way up to her bum.
Michael Fitzhubert: I'd rather you didn't say crude things like that, Albert.
Albert Crundall: I say the crude things; you just think them.

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Edith: Except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world.

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Miss McCraw: The mountain comes to Muhammad, and Hanging Rock comes to Mr. Hussey.

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Miss McCraw: Only a million years ago. Quite a recent eruption really. The rocks all round - Mount Macedon itself - must be all of 350 million years old. Siliceous lava, forced up from deep down below. Soda trachytes extruded in a highly viscous state, building the steep sided mamelons we see in Hanging Rock. And quite young geologically speaking. Barely a million years.

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Ben Hussey: Ah, you wouldn't have the time, I suppose, Miss?
Mlle. de Poitiers: Ah, Miranda- your pretty little diamond watch?
Miranda: Don't wear it anymore. Can't stand the ticking above my heart.
Irma: If it were mine, I'd wear it always- even in the bath. Would you Mr. Hussey?

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Edith: May I come, too, please?
Marion: So long as you don't complain.
Edith: I won't, I promise.
Miranda: And don't worry about us Mademoiselle. We shall only be gone a little while.

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Sara: Miranda knows lots of things other people don't know. Secrets. She knew she wouldn't come back.

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