Other Titles • The Thin Red Line • La Mince ligne rouge (1999) • Der Schmale Grat (1999)
Quotes from The Thin Red Line (1998)
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Sgt. Welsh: If I should never find you in this life, let me feel the lack. One glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours.
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Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: It's never necessary to tell me that you think I'm right. We'll just... assume it.
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Japanese Soldier: Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?
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First Sgt. Edward Welsh: There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this one, just this rock.
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Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: I've lived with these men, sir, for two and a half years and I will not order them all to their deaths.
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First Sgt. Edward Welsh: I might be your best friend, and you don't even know it.
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First Sgt. Edward Welsh: In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one.
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Private Witt: I seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.
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Private Witt: Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.
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First Sgt. Edward Welsh: What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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Private Witt: I can take anything you dish out. I am twice the man you are.
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First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Property. The whole fucking thing's about property.
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Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin'.
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Private Witt: Do you ever feel lonely? First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Only when I'm around people.
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Pvt. Jack Bell: Love. Where does it come from? Who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it. I was a prisoner. You set me free.
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Colonel Gordon Tall: How many men is it worth? How many lives? One? Two? Twenty? Lives will be lost in your company, Captain. If you don't have the stomach for it, now is the time to let me know.
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Colonel Gordon Tall: John, I'm convinced that the Japanese position can be broken right now. All we have to do is keep going and we'll have this hill. We'll have this hill by sundown! You see the spirit in these men? Do you see the new spirit? Well, I want to take advantage of that before something happens to sap their strength. To have this batallion relieved in a defeat, or even to have it reinforced by troops from a reserve regiment, if we were stalled before reaching the top, well, Jesus Christ, that's just a hell of a lot more than I could stand! I've waited all my life for this. I've worked, slaved, eaten untold buckets of shit to have this opportunity and I don't intend to give it up now.
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Colonel Gordon Tall: Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around, swallowing everything. Nature's cruel, Staros.
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Private Edward P. Train: [narrating] What is this great evil? How did it steal into the world? From what seed, what root did it spring? Who's doing this? Who's killing us? Robbing us of light and life. Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known.
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Private Edward P. Train: [narrating] Oh, my soul, let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes, look out at the things you've made. All things shining.
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Private Jack Bell: My dear wife, you get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise. I want to stay changeless for you. I want to come back to you the man I was before.
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Sergeant Storm: It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it.
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Private Jack Bell: [Narrating] Why should I be afraid to die? I belong to you. If I go first, I'll wait for you there, on the other side of the dark waters. Be with me now.
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Private Witt: [narrating] War don't ennoble men. It turns them into dogs... poisons the soul.
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Pvt. Charlie Dale: Maybe they wanna get into eh... Nirvana.
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Pvt. Charlie Dale: See them birds up there... they gonna eat you raw. You're dyin'.
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Pvt. Charlie Dale: What are you to me? Nothin'.
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Japanese soldier: We know you out there, Yank! Sergeant Keck: Tojo eats shit! Japanese soldier: No, Roosevelt eats-a shit!
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