Could I see the books?

4 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:59:11 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Well, that is the only way that man has learned and developed. I wish to learn.

- I want to learn about you. About your civilization.

- Do you have books?

- Books? Yes, we have books.

- Oh, wonderful! I can learn all I want about you from books. Books will tell me what I want to know.

- Could I see the books?

- Yes, they do tell me all about you.

- What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust!

- A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

- You! All of you! I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future. But at least I could die among men!

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