All my friends seem to be dying or having grandchildren.

— Max Schumacher (William Holden)

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3 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:09:33.570 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Buy you a cup of coffee?

- Hell, yes.

- Do you have to get back to the office?

- Nothing that can't wait.

- I drop down to the news studios every now and then and ask Howard Beale about you, and he says you're doing fine. Are you?

- No.

- Are you keeping busy?

- Oh, in a fashion. This is the third funeral I've been to in two weeks.

- I have two other friends in the hospital whom I visit regularly and been to a couple of christenings.

- All my friends seem to be dying or having grandchildren.

- You should be a grandfather yourself about now. You have a pregnant daughter in Seattle, don't you?

- Any day now. My wife's out there for the occasion.

- I've thought many times of calling you.

- I wish you had.

- You know, I bumped into Sibyl the Soothsayer in the elevator last week.

- I said, You know, Sibyl, about four months ago you predicted I would get involved with a craggy, middle-aged man and so far, all that's happened has been one many-splendored night.

[...]

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