A scene from The Thin Red Line 1998
Private Witt

Do you ever feel lonely?

First Sgt. Edward Welsh

Only around people.

Welsh

In this world, a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world, but this one.

Witt

You're wrong, there, Top: I've seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.

Welsh

Well, then you've seen things I never will.

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Private Witt voice over We were a family. How'd it break up and come apart, so that now we're turned against each other? Each standing in the other's light. How'd we lose that good that was given us? Let it slip away. Scattered it, careless. What's keepin' us from reaching out, touching the glory? Private Witt Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man. Private Witt Taken from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath ("Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." - Jim Casey, chapter 4)
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