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- Why can't he be like other people? Why?
- Like other people? Would you have liked him? You knew he was dynamite. He has to explode sometimes.

11 seconds sound clip from the In a Lonely Place movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:13:19.706 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I tried. I wanted it to last so much, for my own sake.

- But Dix doesn't act like a normal person. You don't go around hitting people, smashing cars, torturing your best friend.

- I'm scared of him. I don't trust him. I'm not even sure he didn't kill Mildred Atkinson.

- Laurel! You're going too far.

- Am I?

- Have you forgot what you asked me when we first met? You weren't sure of him either, and you know him better than anybody else.

- Why can't he be like other people? Why?

- Like other people? Would you have liked him? You knew he was dynamite. He has to explode sometimes.

- Years ago, I tried to make him go and see a psychiatrist. I thought he'd kill me.

- Always violent. Well, it's as much a part of him as the color of his eyes, the shape of his head.

- He's Dix Steele. And if you want him, you've got to take it all: the bad with the good. I've taken it for 20 years, and I'd do it again.

- You make me feel ashamed. Maybe I should stay with him, but I can't.

- Why did you tell him you'd marry him?

- I was scared. I still am!

[...]

In a Lonely Place Sound Clip

In a Lonely Place (1950) posterListen to memorable quotes and funny lines from the classic 1950 film noir "In a Lonely Place".

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Dix Steele), Gloria Grahame (Laurel Gray)

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