Well, I get darn sick of trying to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.

— Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson)

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9 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:28 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- I clipped a note to that Garlopis application to have him thoroughly investigated before we accepted the risk.

- I know you did, Walter. I'm not beefing at you.

- It's the company. It's the way they do things. The way they don't do things. The way they'll write anything just to get it down on the sales sheet.

- And I'm the guy that has to sit here up to my neck in phony claims so they won't throw more money out the window than they take in at the door.

- Okay, turn the record over, let's hear the other side.

- Well, I get darn sick of trying to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.

- I've had 26 years of this and let me tell you, I'm getting -Yeah, and you've loved every minute of it.

- You love it, only you worry about it too darn much, you and your little man.

- You're so darn conscientious, you're driving yourself crazy.

- You wouldn't even say today is Tuesday unless you looked at the calendar. Then you'd check to see if it was this year's or last year's calendar. Then you'd find out who printed it and if their calendar checked with the World Almanac's calendar.

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