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No, I shall choose when I've heard one.

3 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:24:42.406 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You take milk, don't you?

- Yes.

- No, I'd be interested to know about your poems.

- What do you want to know about them? How long they are? Their rhyme schemes? Their major influences?

- Quite right, of course.

- You take sugar?

- Sure.

- No, you're quite right.

- Well, would you be so kind as to introduce me to the poems themselves?

- Well, I'm not sure.

- I won't be rude about them.

- What will you do? Stay silent or tell lies?

- No, I shall choose when I've heard one.

- All right. You know, I have won a National Poetry Award shared with Robert Frost.

- I'm impressed.

- Well, let's hope you stay that way.

- Uh... Let's get this out of the way. I'll give you an early one. That way I'm covered.

- I wrote this when I was 22, Spanish Civil War. It's called Snow in Madrid.

- Softly, so casual, lovely, so light, so light, the cruel sky lets fall something one does not fight.

[...]

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Shadowlands film poster

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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