The only way to start is to stop. There is no cure besides just stopping.

— Helen St. James (Jane Wyman)

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

You can hear this line at 01:37:10.044 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Let's not go back to a fancy figure of speech. There's only one Don, he's through.

- Don...

- I'm all right, I still have enough strength left...

- I know you have. I can see it. Don't waste it on pulling a trigger, Don.

- No, let me get it over with or do you want me to give you another one of my promises that I never keep?

- I don't want you to give me your promise, I don't want you to give your promise to anybody but Don Birnam.

- It's too late. I wouldn't know how to start.

- The only way to start is to stop. There is no cure besides just stopping.

- Can't be done.

- Other people have stopped.

- People with a purpose, with something to do.

- You've got talent and ambition.

- Talent. Ambition. That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.

- No it isn't. You still have it.

- Quit trying to stall me Helen. It's too late.

- There's no more writing left in me, it's gone. What do you expect, a miracle?

- Yes, Yes, yes! If I could just make you...

[...]

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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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