- Why don't you just say it flat out?
- All right.
— J.B. Books (John Wayne)
5 seconds sound clip from the The Shootist movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:09:26.616 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Pain in the lumbar vertebrae?
- All right, whenever you get ready, just... bend over the table there, trapdoor down.
- Well?
- Books, every few days I have to tell a man or a woman something I don't want to.
- I've been practicing medicine for 29 years, and I still don't know how to do it well.
- Why don't you just say it flat out?
- You have a cancer... advanced.
- Is that what that fella up at Creede told you?
- Yeah.
- No.
[...]