- You? A coward? What are you afraid of?
- Oh, mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.
— Scarlett Ohara, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh)
10 seconds sound clip from the Gone with the Wind (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:04:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- 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.
- 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.
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