“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my...” – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

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.

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