That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

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13 seconds sound clip from the The Lost Weekend (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:38:41.281 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, Miss St. James!

- What kind of a party was that you asked me to?

- A cocktail party.

- Invitation still stand?

- Of course. Come on.

- Okay. So they go to that cocktail party and he gets stinko and falls flat on his face.

- By this time, he's crazy about that girl by then.

- He drinks tomato juice. Doesn't touch liquor for that whole week... for two weeks, for six weeks.

- In love, huh?

- That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

- The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's Pastoral.

- A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

- Pour it, Nat!

- He thinks he's cured.

- If he could only get a job now, they could be married and that's that. But it's not Nat. Not quite. Because one day, one terrible day...

[...]

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Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat? -Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why. -Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

See that guy over there? With him it's beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him. Has to be dark, though.

Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.

The Lost Weekend (1945) Sound Clip

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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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