You're television incarnate, Diana. Indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality.

— Max Schumacher (William Holden)

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

You can hear this line at 01:50:22.933 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with.

- You're one of Howard's humanoids and if I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything that you and the institution of television touch is destroyed.

- You're television incarnate, Diana. Indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality.

- War, murder, death... all the same to you as bottles of beer.

- And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy.

- You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays.

- You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you.

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