He's contemptible, dishonest, selfish, deceitful, vicious. Yet he's out there, and I'm in here. He's called normal, and I'm not. Well, if that's normal, I don't want it.

— Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn)

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14 seconds sound clip from the Miracle on 34th Street (1947) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:07 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- She had doubts. That's why she was just sorry.

- If you'd been dragged off here instead of me, she wouldn't have been sorry. She'd have been furious.

- All right. She had doubts. Why not? She hasn't really believed in anything for years. You can't expect her to suddenly...

- Oh, it's not just Doris.

- There's Mr. Sawyer.

- He's contemptible, dishonest, selfish, deceitful, vicious. Yet he's out there, and I'm in here. He's called normal, and I'm not. Well, if that's normal, I don't want it.

- That's why I answered the questions incorrectly.

- But you can't just think of yourself. What happens to you matters to a lot of other people, people like me who believe in what you stand for. And people like Susie who are just beginning to.

- You can't quit. You can't let them down.

- No, I suppose I shouldn't.

[...]

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