This has a familiar ring.

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

You can hear this line at 00:47:31.197 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Is it really that bad, Wick?

- Yes, it is.

- Can't we go over this tomorrow, Don, when you're feeling more like yourself?

- Helen's heard the facts. That's all there is to it.

- Yes, I've heard them and they're not very pleasant. But they could be worse.

- After all, you're not an embezzler or a murderer. You drink too much and that's not fatal.

- One cure didn't take. There are others.

- Of course there are.

- This has a familiar ring.

- But, there must be a reason why you drink Don. The right doctor could find it.

- Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me. What I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't.

- What is it you want to be so much that you're not?

- A writer.

- Silly, isn't it?

- You know, in college I passed for a genius. They couldn't get out the college magazine without one of my stories. Boy, was I hot, Hemingway stuff.

- I reached my peak when I was nineteen.

[...]

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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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