He can't just walk in and immediately pick up the old life as if...

3 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:30:27.435 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Is there such a thing as a drink in this house?

- I'll see.

- We haven't got enough bacon for Dad's breakfast. I'll to go out first thing in the morning and try to get some.

- Is this all the liquor we have left?

- Gosh, I'm afraid so.

- I wish he'd given us some warning he was going to get here today.

- Don't worry, Mom.

- I mean so that we could have gotten in some supplies of things.

- Mother, I know it's a little difficult, but that's only because Dad's so crazy about you. He's been away so long and missed you so terribly.

- He can't just walk in and immediately pick up the old life as if...

- I got a wonderful idea. Let's go out on the town, the three of us.

- Tonight?

- Yes, tonight. Right now. We'll celebrate the old man's homecoming.

- Not me. I'm going to bed.

- No. You too. The three of us.

- I wanna do something, see something. And I've been in jungles and around savages so long I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.

- Hey, Rupert, how about another one here?

- Well, I'll tell you, as I see it, we're headed for bad times in this country. Of course, we're in the backwash of the war boom now, but the tide is running out fast.

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