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- But that's not true. We love you, Wick and I.
- All right. Then for me.
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Selfish again.
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That's a sad final word, Don.
1:36:06
Look at it this way, Helen. This business is just a formality.
Don Birnam is dead already.
1:36:10
- He died over this weekend.
- Did he? What did he die of?
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Of a lot of things.
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Of alcohol, of moral anemia, of fear, of shame, of D.T.'s.
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Oh, that Don Birnam. And now you want to kill the other one.
1:36:22
What other?
1:36:23
There were two Dons. You told me so yourself.
Don the drunk and Don the writer.
1:36:27
Let's not go back to a fancy figure of speech.
There's only one Don, he's through.
1:36:32
Don.
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I'm all right, I have enough strength left...
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I know you have. I can see it.
Don't waste it on pulling a trigger, Don.
1:36:40
No, let me get it over with or do you want me to give you
another one of my promises that I never keep?
1:36:44
I don't want you to give me your promise,
I don't want you to give your promise to anybody but Don Birnam.
1:36:48
It's too late. I wouldn't know how to start.
1:36:50
The only way to start is to stop.
There is no cure besides just stopping.
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- Can't be done.
- Other people have stopped.
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People with a purpose, with something to do.
1:36:58
You've got talent and ambition.
1:37:00
Talent. Ambition. That's dead long ago.
That's drowned.
1:37:04
That's drifting around
with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.
1:37:07
No it isn't. You still have it.
1:37:09
Quit trying to stall me Helen. It's too late.
1:37:11
There's no more writing left in me,
it's gone. What do you expect, a miracle?
1:37:13
Yes,
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Yes, yes! If I could just make you...
1:37:16
- Who is it?
- It's me, Mr. Birnam.
1:37:18
- What is it, Nat?
- I got somethin' for you, Mr. Birnam.
1:37:26
- I hope I ain't intrudin.
- What is it?
1:37:28
You know when you had that accident?
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Afterward I found this floatin' around on the Nile.
1:37:32
She writes pretty good. I oiled her up a little.
1:37:35
And I didn't oil her up so you can hock her.
1:37:39
- I'll take it, Nat.
- Hello, Miss.
1:37:43
Thank you, Nat.
1:37:45
How are all them lilacs in Ohio?
1:37:50
Well Don, here it is. What do you say now?
1:37:53
- Say about what?
- This.
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Someone, somewhere, sent it back.
Why? Because he means you to stay alive,
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because he wants you to write.
I didn't ask for a big miracle.