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I probably would have got on and got off before it started out. Or I would have got the jitters the minute I got on.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Strange Love of Martha Ivers movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:21.699 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- You talk awful cold-blooded about them, don't you?

- That's life.

- Is it a big family?

- No, it wasn't. Besides me, there were just the usual two people necessary to increase the population.

- Mother left when I was a baby, and my father probably drank himself to death by now.

- Another man I know talks cold like that's my Dad. He's the most cold-blooded man in Ridgeville. Once he kicked me. Gee, it made me sick.

- I can guess why you didn't break your neck to catch that bus back to Ridgeville tonight.

- I probably would have got on and got off before it started out. Or I would have got the jitters the minute I got on.

- Anyway, it's gone now, for tonight anyhow. There won't be another one until tomorrow night. And now I know for sure, I'm not going to make that one either. Not the one to Ridgeville, at least.

- But I'm so glad you came to have a drink with me tonight. I was so lonesome, I like to have died.

- Have you ever been that lonesome?

- How lonesome is that?

- About as much as you can hold without busting open.

- Wanna know how I got that way?

- Curfew. Shall we go home?

- The reason I picked the hotel, your hotel, it's really very...

- You read the hotel advertising on that when you had it.

[...]

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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin (Sam Masterson), Lizabeth Scott (Antonia "Toni" Marachek), Kirk Douglas (Walter O'Neil)

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