What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage?

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6 seconds sound clip from the Donnie Darko movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:20 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Just leave her alone.

- That's some good shit, huh?

- It's a fucking cigarette.

- There would be headlines in the papers.

- Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed.

- It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons... now, in his 15th year, crystallized with the pain of puberty.

- What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage?

- Why did the children break into Old Misery's house? Joanie?

- They wanted to rob him.

- If you had actually read the short story which, at a whopping 13 pages would have kept you up all night...

- You would know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it.

- Donnie Darko... perhaps with your recent brush with mass destruction, you can give us your opinion.

- Well, they say it right when they flood the house and they tear it to shreds that destruction is a form of creation. So, the fact that they burn the money is ironic.

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Top rated lines from this movie

She said that every living creature on Earth dies alone.

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better? -Like images, or what?

The search for God is absurd? -It is if everyone dies alone.

But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

And, Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there, just swallow it. -Okay, Mom.

Donnie Darko Sound Clip

Audio clips of memorable quotes from the movie Donnie Darko that you can use as ringtones or custom computer sounds.

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), Jena Malone (Gretchen Ross), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Elizabeth Darko), Mary McDonnell (Rose Darko), Patrick Swayze (Jim Cunningham), Drew Barrymore (Karen Pomeroy), Seth Rogen (Ricky Danforth), Katharine Ross (Dr. Lillian Thurman), Noah Wyle (Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff)

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