Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 189)
“You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.”
Quoted by Allison Glock, GQ, "Twenty-one Reasons to Dig Viggo Mortensen" (November 1, 2003).
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