“See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning we'll be dead and it'll be...” – Paris, Paths of Glory ... Movie Quotes Database

Paris

See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning we'll be dead and it'll be alive. It will have more contact with my wife and child than I will. I'll be nothing, and it'll be alive.

Ferol

[crushes the cockroach]

Now you've got the edge on him.

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