Not sad enough to be a poet, not indifferent enough to be a philosopher, but sober enough to be a cripple.

Ona 2022-04-22 07:01:01

Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker.

And every minute Charlie squats in the Bush, he gets stronger.

All that matters is that you are alive.

You are alive, captain.

That's the truth.

If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.

You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time, who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgement.

Without judgement.

Because it's judgement that defeats us.

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  • Chef: [after having encountered a tiger in the jungle, returning to the boat, and proceeding into a nervous breakdown] You can have the whole goddamn fuckin' shit, man! You can kiss my ass in the county square cause I'm fuckin' buggin' out! I didn't come here for this! I don't fuckin' need it, I don't want it! I didn't get out of the goddamn Eighth grade for this kinda shit! All I wanted to do was fuckin' cook! I just wanted to learn to fuckin' cook, man!

    [laughs manically]

  • Kilgore: All right, let's see what we have. Two of spades. Three of spades. Four of diamonds, six of clubs... there isn't one worth a jack in the whole bunch. Four of diamonds...