But the war did come. I saw my boyhood friends blown to bits. I saw men crumple up in agony when I shot them.
— Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard)
9 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:05:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You? A coward? What are you afraid of?
- Oh, mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.
- Not that I mind splitting rails.
- But I do mind very much losing the beauty of that that life I loved.
- If the war hadn't come, I'd have spent my life happily buried at Twelve Oaks.
- Oh I can never make you understand, because you don't know the meaning of fear.
- You never mind facing realities. You never want to escape from them as I do.
- Escape? Oh, you're wrong. I do want to escape too. I'm so very tired of it all.
[...]