- So reading is a waste of time?
- No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.
10 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:25:55.430 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Softly, so casual, lovely, so light, so light, the cruel sky lets fall something one does not fight.
- Touched?
- Yes.
- Touched? That's good. That's about its level.
- So you may ask, when was I ever in Madrid? The answer is, never.
- Well, personal experience isn't everything.
- I disagree. I think personal experience is everything.
- So reading is a waste of time?
- No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.
- Why should one want to be hurt?
- Well, just because something hurts, it doesn't make it more true or more significant.
- Pain is a tool. If you like, pain is God's megaphone...
- Megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- How embarrassing. You know my writing too well, don't you?
[...]
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Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)
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