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Now, go on and sit down and read a magazine or listen to the radio while I cook the soup.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:34:03.422 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Well, I'm hungry. I'm going out by myself.

- You're not going out. You're gonna stay right here and eat what I cook and like it.

- Let go of me.

- When we were married, babe, that justice of the peace said something about for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse. Remember? Well, this is the worse.

- When do we get going on the better?

- Whenever I get wise to myself, I guess. Whenever I wake up and realize I'm not an officer and a gentleman anymore. I'm just another soda jerk out of a job.

- Now, go on and sit down and read a magazine or listen to the radio while I cook the soup.

- I'll fix you a nice meal, honey. Just like I used to do behind the fountain, before the war.

- The Perfume and Cosmetics Department is now our outstanding feature. It accounts for 34 percent of our gross intake and even a higher proportion of our profits.

- As you will readily surmise, our customers in this department are almost exclusively women.

- Yes, I'd surmised that.

- You must familiarize yourself with the correct pronunciation of all the perfumes and toiletries. For instance, here's a popular number. Rêve Romantique.

- Yeah, that means romantic dream.

- You speak French?

- Well, I'll tell you, Sticky, just enough to make my way around the Paris bars.

[...]

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Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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