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I'm a coward.

3 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:04:40 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What shall we do? What's to become of us?

- What do you think becomes of people when their civilization breaks up? Those who have brains and courage come through all right. Those that haven't are winnowed out.

- For heaven's sake, don't stand there talking nonsense at me when it's us who are being winnowed out!

- You're right. Here I am talking tommyrot about civilization, while your Tara is in danger.

- You've come to me for help, and I've no help to give you.

- I'm a coward.

- You? A coward? What are you afraid of?

- Oh, mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.

- Not that I mind splitting rails.

- But I do mind very much losing the beauty of that that life I loved.

- If the war hadn't come, I'd have spent my life happily buried at Twelve Oaks.

- But the war did come. I saw my boyhood friends blown to bits. I saw men crumple up in agony when I shot them.

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Actors: Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara)

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