- Um... I'm not going to be able to continue this conversation.
- Why?
- I could lose my job.
- Okay.

— Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff (Noah Wyle)

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16 seconds sound clip from the Donnie Darko movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:13:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm not following you.

- Every living thing follows along a set path. And if you could see your path or channel then you could see into the future, right? Like, uh, that's a form of time travel.

- Well, you're contradicting yourself.

- If we were able to see our destinies manifest themselves visually, then we would be given a choice to betray our chosen destinies. And the mere fact that this choice exists would make all pre-formed destiny come to an end.

- Not if you travel within God's channel.

- Um... I'm not going to be able to continue this conversation.

- Why?

- I could lose my job.

- Okay.

- It gives me no pleasure to deny you the right to read one of the great writers of the 20th century...

- But, alas, I have not yet been elected queen of the universe, so, I must obey the rules, and so will you.

- So, anyone seen in this school reading this book will be suspended, but not to worry. Someone has already pre-ordered a dozen copies at the Sarasota Mall bookstore.

- In Mr. Greene's absence, we will now be reading another classic... Watership Down by Richard Adams.

[...]

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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.

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