"These stories are based on facts all similarities with real people or events are not fortuitous." "The World's Most Beautiful Swindles" "To hell with morals, we're swindlers." "Enough moralising and pleasantries." "We'll drown in the dregs, the dregs of time." "Swindlers we are, Tell your diamonds, 'au revoir'!" "Before you sneer at our illegality" "Listen to the principles of our immorality" "You say, 'it's a crime to rob one's neighbours'" "Aye, but that's an insult to murderers" "No no, it's Patricia" "No, Romain left for Casablanca last night" "When are you leaving?" "Charity thinketh no evil" "No, we're not staying overnight" "Why are you going back to New York so soon?" "Charity endureth all things" "So, there's a seat for me, too?" "Charity believeth all things." "Charity never faileth" "OK, in two hours, outside the Hotel Renaissance" "No, I'm going out first" "I'm going to finish my film in the Medina first" "Bye" "Action!" "Have some money!" "Have some money!" "Have some money!" "Have some money!" "How much is the djellaba?" "OK, I'll take it" "Here you are" "What's wrong?" "What have I done" "Let go of me" "I haven't done anything" "You look more like Loopy de Loop than a police inspector" "Well?" "For three weeks now," "Marrakech has been flooded with fake bank notes." "And it isn't even the rainy season" "So, we thought that maybe you could tell us where these notes came from" "Well pussycat?" "I already told you I don't know" "Who gave them to you?" "I'm sorry but I swear I don't know" "Never mind" "Here's your passport Miss Leacock" "So you're on holiday in Marrakech" "No no, I'm working" "I thought that in America pretty women didn't work" "You're mistaken" "I'm a reporter for WXYZ in San Francisco" "Channel 8" "What's that?" "A television station" "I travel all over the world reporting" "I would like you to tell me the exact meaning of the word 'reportage'" "It means filming ... things places and people as they are" "Yeah." "I get it" "You make documentary films, like Mr Rouch" "Yes, like that" "I capture moments in real time" "It's Cinema Verite" "Me too, I also look for the truth" "But in a different way" "Neither of us will ever find it though" "What time is it?" "Two." "Five past two" "May I go?" "I'm late to meet someone." "Don't worry" "I'll give you a lift in my car" "Come on" "According to your passport you were in Poland." "What were you doing there?" "Reporting" "I met a rather odd character, in Warsaw" "He bought photos of Karl Marx from the government" "He gave Marx a different beard and sold the photos to farmers as the portrait of Christ" "What's your show called?" "The Most Extraordinary Person I Have Ever Met" "It's sponsored by Reader's Digest" "Your friends didn't wait" "Oh, no no." "But we didn't actually agree to meet" "If you like, tomorrow ..." "I'm going to Casablanca" "I could take you" "Oh" "OK" "See you in the morning then 11 o'clock" "Alright" "Bye" "Money .. here's money" "There" "There" "There" "Let's scram" "Follow that car" "What do you want?" "I'm a reporter for WXYZ in San Francisco" "Cannel 8" "Do you speak English?" "Miss ..." "I like lucidity above all else and I am afraid I shall hardly be able to converse satisfactorily with you, unless you bear it in mind" "Are you forging the bank notes?" "Are you going to tell the police?" "No, certainly not" "I would just like to film you" "Maybe you do not sufficiently consider that though a small man," "I have my small share of feelings" "I promise I won't say anything" "Will you agree to let me film?" "and ask you questions?" "Charity endureth all things" "Evil comes from good" "Distrust is a stage to confidence" " Where were you born?" " In Singapore" "Have you been forging notes for long?" "Evidently" "Miss, didn't you have an accident four years ago?" "An injury to the head" "The strange effects remain" "Not only is one unconscious of events for a greater or lesser time" "immediately after the injury but likewise, strangely enough, one forgets totally, irremediably," "events embracing a greater or lesser period, immediately" "preceding the injury." "That's to say, at a time when the mind was perfectly aware of what was happening and fully competent also" "of registering it in the memory and did in fact do so," "but all in vain for all was afterwards erased by the injury" "Why won't you answer?" "What's your name?" "Why do you give the money that you make to beggars?" "Self-knowledge is not so easy" "Who knows, my dear lady?" "You may have taken yourself for somebody else for a time." "Stranger things have happened" "Do you do it all over America?" "I forge dollars too," "And I drive an American car." "That way, the police don't suspect me" "Don't people get mad when they realise it's counterfeit?" "It's the worst kind of swindle." "It's practically theft." "No." "Charity thinketh no evil." "I'm no Fourier, hatching impossible schemes" "I'm a philanthropist and a financier" "Setting forth a philanthropy and a finance which are realisable" "How is it realisable?" "I was going to tell you" "After seeing my invention duly catalogued and placed" "I gave myself up to pondering the scene about me" "As I reflected that here was the pride of the world glorying in a glass house" "I wa sprofoundly impressed by a sense of the fragility of worldly grandeur" "And I said to myself" "Let some worldwide good to the worldwise cause be done" "The world's charity will be a society whose object will be the methodisation of the world's benevolence the advancement of the spirit of generosity" "To achieve this, the society will be empowered by various governments" "to levy annually one grand benevolence tax upon all humankind;" "as in Augustus Caesar's time the whole world will be taxed;" "a tax which, with my scheme, should be something like the income tax of England." "Why are you filming me like that?" "I don't know;" "because I'm looking for ... the truth" "What for?" "To show people" "So you're steaing something from me" "And you're stealing it from others too" "Why are you telling me all this?" "Fill it up" "Only now?" "To have a clear conscience" "I see you have been mobilized by this society to methodically organize" "the advancement of the spirit of generosity" "Maybe" "It disgusts me" "But why?" "He's sick." "He's a sad case" "Is that all he said?" "Is that the end of the story?" "Is that all he said?" "Is that the end of the story?" "Yes, he turned his back on me leaving me at a loss" "to determine exactly at what moment he abandoned the fictitious persona and the real one resume if he exists at all" "Yes, if he exists at all" "These familar lines came to the mind of the young filmmaker from San Francisco with pointed meaning, as she gazed after the stranger;" ""All the world's a stage" "And all the men and women merely players" "With their exists and entrances" "And one man in his time plays many parts"" "To hell with morals, we're swindlers." "Enough moralising and pleasantries." "We'll drown in the dregs, the dregs of time." "Swindlers we are, Tell your diamonds, 'au revoir'!"