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Quotes

21

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I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 6.9

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

American Beauty · 1999

★ 6.9

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Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get out hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, depending on the breaks.

Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 4.5

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You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.8

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Movies

17

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

1964★ 9.6

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

1994★ 9.5

The Seventh Seal

1957★ 8.3

Network

1976★ 8.2

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese

2013★ 7.5

Trainspotting

1996★ 7.3

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Books

7

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

1955★ 9.1

Catch-22

1961★ 8.7

Slaughterhouse Five

1969★ 8.4

The Ambassadors

1903★ 7.1

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

1952★ 6.5

Sixty Stories

Donald Barthelme

1981★ 5.5

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