4 seconds sound clip from the The Shop Around the Corner (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:54:00.055 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- And I'll thank you not to be sarcastic. I know you've had a bad day, and you probably feel very bitter. Still, that's no reason to...
- Bitter? Me? About leaving Matuschek and Company?
- When I got home and sat at the phone in five minutes I had what amounts to two offers.
- Well, I congratulate you. I wish you good luck.
- Oh, I see you're reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
- Yes, do you mind?
- No, no. I just didn't expect to meet you in a cafe with Tolstoy, that's all. It's quite a surprise. I didn't know you went in for high literature.
- There are many things you don't know about me, Mr. Kralik.
- Uh-huh.
- Have you read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky?
- No, I haven't.
- I have.
- There are many things you don't know about me, Miss Novak. As a matter of fact, there might be a lot we don't know about each other.
- You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
- Well, I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a handbag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect a cigarette lighter which doesn't work.
- Well, that's very nicely put. Yes, comparing my intellect with a cigarette lighter that doesn't work.
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