Fear and Desire (1952)

Kenneth Harp: Lt. Corby, The General

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Quotes 

• Lieutenant Corby : Well, we have nothing to lose but our futures.

• Enemy General : Sometimes, as I look at these maps, I wonder if my own grave isn't being planned. Here... or here... or here.

• Private Fletcher : I guess I'm not - built for this.

  Lieutenant Corby : Nobody ever was. It's all a trick we perform when we'd rather not die - immediately.

• Lieutenant Corby : Once you understand how a mousetrap works, if you're clever enough, you can use it as a springboard.

• Lieutenant Corby : Cold stew on a blazing island. We've just made a perfect definition of war, Mac.

• Lieutenant Corby : You know, there's nothing so refreshing as an afternoon outdoors in enemy territory. It's really too bad that the sun doesn't burn us green instead of brown - camouflage.

• Mac : You talk too much; I guess we both do a little.

  Lt. Corby : Sometimes talk is an indispensable medicine.

  Mac : Yeah, but you get sicker later.

• [Upon realizing the raft was not discovered] 

  Lt. Corby : They must've been reading a magazine in that plane.

• Lieutenant Corby : We spend our lives running our fingers down the lists in directories, looking for our real names, our permanent addresses. No man is an island?

  [chuckles softly] 

  Lieutenant Corby : Perhaps that was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age. The glaciers have melted away, and now we're all islands - parts of a world made of islands only...