What happened at the beach had nothing to do with it. This guy asked for it. I've had a hundred fights like this.
5 seconds sound clip from the In a Lonely Place movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:32.429 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Dix! Stop it! Stop it! Let him alone! Dix, don't! You'll... Dix, stop! You'll kill him!
- I'll take that cigarette now.
- No.
- These guys in their hopped-up cars, they think they own the road.
- No, but I'm usually in the right. I was this time.
- You heard what he called me.
- That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
- Nobody can call me the things he did.
- A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. That's real bad.
- I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
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