- That's the cockeyed kind of dream you have when you're overseas.
- You don't have to be overseas to have dreams like that.
- Yeah. You can get crazy ideas right here at home.

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Peggy Stephenson (Teresa Wright)

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

You can hear this line at 01:43:39.707 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It is a nice little place. I never heard of it before.

- I used to come here now and then in the old days, before the war.

- Sometimes I used to think of this place when I was overseas. I thought, When I get back home I'm never gonna eat in a dump like Lucia's.

- What else did you think you wouldn't do when you were overseas?

- I never had any clear ideas, but there were two things I was sure of. One, that I knew I'd never go back to that drugstore.

- What was the other thing?

- Mm, that was even sillier. I dreamed I was gonna have my own home. Just a nice little house for my wife and me out in the country in the suburbs, anyway.

- That's the cockeyed kind of dream you have when you're overseas.

- You don't have to be overseas to have dreams like that.

- Yeah. You can get crazy ideas right here at home.

- Didn't you say you had to be back at work at 2?

- Yeah.

- Well, hadn't you better...?

- Yeah.

- Check, please.

- Eighty-five cents apiece for lunch, plus tax, that's a $1.76.

- Okay.

- Thank you very much. Goodbye.

- Bye.

- Goodbye, signorina. Come again.

- We'll do that. So long, Giuseppe.

- Arrivederci, Fred.

- That shouldn't have happened. But I guess it had to.

[...]

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