25th Hour ending monologue
You ve never been west of Philly, have ya This is a beautiful country Monty, it s beautiful out there, like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches. I drove out west with your mother one time, before you was born. Brooklyn to the Pacific in three days. Just enough money for gas, sandwiches, and coffee, but we made it. Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin at all for miles around. Nothin but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Nobody honkin atcha. No madmen cursin or pissin in the streets. You find the silence out there, you find the peace. You can find God. So we drive west, keep driving till we find a nice little town. These towns out in the desert, you know why they got there People wanted to get way from somewhere else. The desert s for startin over. Find a bar and I ll buy us drinks. I haven t had a drink in two years, but I ll have one with you, one last whisky with m
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