“I went down that river once when I was a kid. There's a place in the...” – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

I went down that river once when I was a kid. There's a place in the river.. I can't remember... Must have been a gardenia plantation at one time. All wild and overgrown now, but for about five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the form of gardenias...

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Colonel Walter E. Kurtz We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful, for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. I do hate them. Colonel Walter E. Kurtz We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "****" on their airplanes because it's obscene! Colonel Walter E. Kurtz I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor ... and surviving.