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Best Line? *SPOILERS*


My favourite was: "No white man hides himself in the wilderness without a reason!"

Anyone else?

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"Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?"


"I told you it was off." The Jackal

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If women can plough a field, we can pull a canon.

I've been a hero and I've been a coward and there's not so much as the thickness of a piece of paper between them.

The distance is nothing. The first step is the hardest.

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James Mason to Curt Jurgens: (I'm paraphrasing here, don't remember it exactly.
"You're a disaster! Try to improve yourself into an ordinary failure!"

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[paraphrase] "I've been a hero and I've been a coward... and there's not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them".






"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"

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