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Apocalypse Now

 Francis Ford Coppola
 

Important Quotations Explained

 
1. Kilgore:   “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
 
 
2. General Corman:   “In this war, things get confused out there—power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity . . . because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.”
 
 
3. Willard:   “It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie—and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies.”
 
 
4. Kurtz:   “It's judgment that defeats us.”
 
 
5. Kurtz:   “The horror, the horror.”
 
 
 
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