You can take just so much horror and then you get used to it.

— Jean (Vincent Price)

6 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:13:22 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- They don't like the fire, do they?

- Guess not.

- Give me another match.

- You don't like that much?

- Don't rile them, Auguste.

- Give me some more matches. I'll strike them and strike them and strike them until they get scared and go away.

- They won't go away. Not until...

- Not until what?

- Not until they've been... fed. You can take just so much horror and then you get used to it.

- You can take just so much horror and then you get used to it.

- And they were interesting to watch, you know.

- They couldn't understand the glass. They could see us and they could rush at us, but that thin invisible barrier held them off, stopped them.

- From time to time, we caught a glimpse of the rocks below. More rats down there. Swarming brown velvet in the bright tropical sunlight.

- And then the tide began to rise... If only it'd drown some of them.

[...]