I've made a great study of abnormal psychology and I've found from experience that when a fixed delusion is challenged, the deluded is apt to become violent.

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delusion psychology

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

You can hear this line at 00:35:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- There are thousands of people walking around with similar delusions, living perfectly normal lives in every other respect.

- A famous example is that fellow, uh, uh... Well, I can't think of his name, but for years he's insisted he's a Russian prince.

- There's been all kinds of evidence to prove him wrong, but nothing has shaken his story.

- Is he in an institution?

- He owns a famous restaurant in Hollywood and is a highly respected citizen.

- I've made a great study of abnormal psychology and I've found from experience that when a fixed delusion is challenged, the deluded is apt to become violent.

- I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you again.

- If you tell Kris there is no Santa Claus, I grant you he'll argue the point, but he'll not become violent.

- His whole manner suggests aggressiveness.

- Look at the way he carries that cane... and he's never without it.

- I know Kris always carries a cane, but surely you're not implying he'd use the cane as a weapon.

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I have great respect for psychiatry and great contempt for meddling amateurs who go around practicing it.

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.

Oh, Fred! You're talking like a child! You're living in a realistic world. And those lovely intangibles of yours are attractive, but not worth very much.

Yeah, there's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck. Make a buck. Even in Brooklyn, it's the same.

No, to me the imagination is a place all by itself - a separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagination. It's a wonderful place.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Sound Clip

Famous lines and quotes from "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947 film), featuring short sound clips with voice and sfx.

Actors: Maureen O'Hara (Doris Walker), John Payne (Fred Gailey), Edmund Gwenn (Kris Kringle), Natalie Wood (Susan Walker), William Frawley (Charlie Halloran)

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