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“So we beat on boats against the current”
SPOKEN AT 02:08:28 INThe Great Gatsby
2013 · 143 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · DIR. Baz Luhrmann
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02:08:06 But he did not know that it was already behind him.
02:08:11 Gatsby believed in the green light
02:08:14 the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
02:08:19 It eluded us then, but that's no matter.
02:08:22 Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…
02:08:28 And one fine morning— So we beat on
02:08:33 boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
02:08:40 into the past.
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1999
Man on the Moon
“"... and one fine morning...” · 00:39:27
2007
The Education of Charlie Banks
“"So we beat on” · 01:18:56
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
“And one fine morning” · 01:02:57
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