Our dried voices, when we whisper together, are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar...
13 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:55:44 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- You'll be free. You'll be under guard. Read these at your leisure. Don't lose them.
- Don't try to escape. You'll be shot.
- We can talk of these things later.
- We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men leaning together, headpiece filled with straw.
- Alas!
- Shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture without motion...
- Do you know what the man's saying? Do you?
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