He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

— Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli)

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9 seconds sound clip from the The Third Man (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:45:23.394 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Was he clever when he was a boy?

- I suppose so. He could fix anything.

- What sort of things?

- Oh, little things.

- How to put your temperature up before exam. The best crib. How to avoid this and that.

- He fixed my papers for me. He heard the Russians were repatriating people like me who came from Czechoslovakia.

- He knew the right person straightaway for forging stamps.

- Yeah.

- When he was 14, he taught me the three-card trick. That's growing up fast.

- He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

- Anna. You'll fall in love again.

- Don't you see I don't want to? I don't ever want to.

- Come on out and have a drink.

- Why did you say that?

- Seemed like a good idea.

- It was just what he used to say.

- Well... I didn't learn that from him.

[...]

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