Benediction (2021)

Ben Daniels: Dr. Rivers

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• Dr. Rivers : Why not?

  Siegfried Sassoon : Too afraid, too inhibited. Shamed by an inner corruption. Or perhaps it's simply because of... What's the phrase? "The love that dare not speak its name."

  Dr. Rivers : You are not alone in that respect.

• Siegfried Sassoon : Pain is not the only terror. There are many more.

  Dr. Rivers : Can you name them?

  Siegfried Sassoon : If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors.

• Dr. Rivers : I've always thought that politicians were too stupid to be subtle.

  Siegfried Sassoon : Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant.

• Siegfried Sassoon : Why do all the worst terrors come at night?

  Dr. Rivers : The night is, I think, like the unconscious. Waiting all day so that it can steal over you in the dark.

• Dr. Rivers : I trust after this disclosure, you will be discreet.

  Siegfried Sassoon : Discretion is my middle name.

• Dr. Rivers : What about your poetry?

  Siegfried Sassoon : It's egotism, really.

  Dr. Rivers : That seems a little harsh.

  Siegfried Sassoon : Truth often is.