- All right. Now tell me why you got drunk?
- Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.

— Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck), Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas)

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[...]

- When did you get drunk? Where did you get drunk? Why did you get drunk?

- Don't stand over me like that. I'm a sentimental man, Martha.

- I started to get dressed and then I realized it was the forth anniversary of my father's death.

- I thought it would be nice if I went to the cemetery and laid a wreath of flowers on his grave. However, I never got there. Sentiment overwhelmed me. I stopped off to have a drink to his sainted memory.

- As I drank, I thought to myself, it's such a pity that my father isn't alive to be able to see for himself all his dreams come true. The dreams he worked so hard for. His son, a famous man. Married to a beautiful and wealthy woman.

- All right. Now tell me why you got drunk?

- Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.

- Listen to me, what's done is done.

- The deed's done, not the thought.

- You've got a life to live.

- I don't know, I'm not sure.

- A brilliant career.

- My father always said that.

- Your father was right.- He was never right about anything.

- From the day he walked in and found your aunt on the floor...

[...]

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