You never mind facing realities. You never want to escape from them as I do.

— Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:05:28 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- 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.

- But the war did come. I saw my boyhood friends blown to bits. I saw men crumple up in agony when I shot them.

- And now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death. A world in which there's no place for me.

- 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.

- I've struggled for food and for money, I've weeded, and hoed and picked cotton till I can't stand it another minute.

- I tell you, the South is dead. It's dead! The Yankees and the Carpetbaggers have got it and there's left nothing for us.

- Oh, let's run away. We'd go to Mexico. They want officers in the Mexican army. We could be so happy there.

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