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An ordinary human being who suffered reverses is sick of it all, he wants to leave it all behind.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:01:33 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, Hellman... what do you think?

- Professor, it's truly conjecture, simply a theory and I wouldn't advise publishing it.

- I worked on that theory for a long time. I am positive of it. I know it'll work.

- Suppose it will. What good is it? What good have you accomplished if you can prove it'll work?

- Are you laughing at me?

- It's so silly!

- An ordinary human being who suffered reverses is sick of it all, he wants to leave it all behind.

- And you say he can be changed to want to kill someone else...

- I do.

- Self-destruction and the destruction of other life are closely related in the mind. The dividing line is very thin.

- It's ridiculous.

- And you won't publish it?

- Granger would fire me.

- Why?

- He told me that in his opinion you should be in the asylum.

[...]

The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense) Sound Clip

The Doctor Prescribed Death (1943)Quotes with audio samples from The Doctor Prescribed Death - Suspense Radio Show episode aired on February 2, 1943.

Actors: Bela Lugosi (Dr. Antonio Bacile), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Myra Bacile), Lurene Tuttle (Gladys Tanner), Joseph Kearns (The Man In Black), Lou Merrill (Lieutenant Davis)

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