Can this be bargained away by saying, like a merchant: Marion will be herself and love Charlie only if he meets a certain price and conditions?
12 seconds sound clip from the The Big Knife (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:14:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Do you know where your fatal error lies? You ought to know, so I'm going to tell you.
- You're afflicted with a fine, fat case of merchant psychology.
- You bargain and trifle with your own nature. That's your error.
- Tonight, you're about to possibly destroy your life and certainly mine.
- Didn't we pick each other out of millions?
- Where's the rich, full-hearted woman I know you to be?
- I say no, and I say down with not being what we are!
- How you can talk when you're Charlie Cass.
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