How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Citizen Cane.
Quote #4
BERNSTEIN: He finished it. He wrote the worst notice I ever read about the girl he loved. We ran it in every paper.
Maybe Kane loves his wife Susan and maybe he doesn't. But he sure deals her a crushing blow when he takes his friend Leland's review and finishes it the way Leland wanted it. Maybe he's trying to show how honest he can be, but Kane runs a review that absolutely pans his wife and basically trashes her career.
Quote #5
LELAND: That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough. He wanted all the voters to love him, too. All he really wanted out of life was love.
According to Leland, all Kane ever wanted out of life was love. But his concept of love was warped from a young age by always having an infinite amount of money to throw around.
Quote #6
LELAND: That's Charlie's story—it's the story of how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. He loved Charlie Kane, of course, very dearly—and his mother, I guess he always loved her.
Charlie Kane wanted love, but he didn't know how to give any himself. For him, love was something he could go out and "get" in the same way he could get a statue or a newspaper.