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trying to squeeze out one page that was halfway decent,
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and that guy would pop up again.
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What guy? Who are you talking about?
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The other Don Birnam. There are two of us, you know:
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Don the drunk and Don the writer.
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And the drunk would say to the writer, come on,
let's get some good out of that portable.
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Let's take it to that pawn shop over on 3rd Avenue,
it's always good for U$10,
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another drink, another binge, another bender and a spree.
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Such humorous words.
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I tried to break away from that guy
a lot of times but, no good.
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You know once I even got myself a gun and some bullets.
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I was gonna do it on my thirtieth birthday.
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Here are the bullets.
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The gun went for three quarts of whiskey.
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That other Don wanted us to have a drink first.
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He always wants us to have a drink first.
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The flop suicide of a flop writer.
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All right, maybe you're not a writer.
Why don't you do something else?
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Sure, take a nice job.
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Public accountant, real estate salesman.
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I haven't the guts, Helen.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I can't take quiet desperation.
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But you are a writer. You have every quality for it.
Imagination, wit, pity...
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Come on, let's face reality.
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I'm thirty-three, I'm living on the charity of my brother.
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Room and board free. Fifty cents a week for cigarettes.
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An occasional ticket to a show or concert,
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all out of the bigness of his heart.
And it is a big heart and a patient one.
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- I've only been carrying you along for the time being.
- Shut up, Wick
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I've never done anything, I'm not doing anything,
I never will do anything.
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Zero, zero, zero.
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- Now you shut up. We'll straighten it out.
- Look.
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Wick has the misfortune to be my brother.
You just happened to walk in on this.
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Now if you know what's good for you, you'll turn around
and walk out again and walk fast and don't turn back.