But don't worry about me. I'll manage. I always have, I always will. I'm more concerned about you. You're not the boozer type. So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up. Or jump out of your 14th floor office window.

— Max Schumacher (William Holden)

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

You can hear this line at 01:48:52.675 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Well, I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.

- I gave up comparing genitals back in the schoolyard.

- You're being docile as hell about this.

- Oh, hell, Diana, I knew it was over with us weeks ago.

- Will you go back to your wife?

- I'll give it a try, but I don't think she'll jump at it.

- But don't worry about me. I'll manage. I always have, I always will. I'm more concerned about you. You're not the boozer type. So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up. Or jump out of your 14th floor office window.

- Stop selling, Max. I don't need you.

- I don't want your pain. I don't want your menopausal decay and death! I don't need you, Max. Now get out of here!

- You need me! You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality.

- I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.

- Then don't leave me.

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