Apocalypse Now


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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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