But before I could really grab it and throw it down on paper... the drinks would wear off and everything would be gone, like a mirage.

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You can hear this line at 00:49:05.134 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- And I moved right in on New York.

- Well, the first thing I wrote, that didn't quite come off. And the second, I dropped. The public wasn't ready for that one. I started a third and a fourth...

- Only by then, somebody began to look over my shoulder and whisper in a thin, clear voice like the E-string on a violin.

- Don Birnam, he'd whisper... it's not good enough. Not that way. How about a couple of drinks just to set it on its feet, huh? So I had a couple.

- Oh, what a great idea that was. That made all the difference. Suddenly I could see the whole thing... the tragic sweep of the great novel, beautifully proportioned.

- But before I could really grab it and throw it down on paper... the drinks would wear off and everything would be gone, like a mirage.

- Then there was despair, and... a drink to counterbalance despair, and one to counterbalance the counterbalance.

- And I'd sit in front of that typewriter, trying to squeeze out one page that was halfway decent, and that guy would pop up again.

- What guy? Who are you talking about?

- The other Don Birnam. There are two of us, you know: Don the drunk and Don the writer.

- And the drunk would say to the writer, come on, let's get some good out of that portable. Let's take it to that pawn shop over on 3rd Avenue, it's always good for $10, another drink, another binge, another bender and a spree.

- Such humorous words.

[...]

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Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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