“About a messed-up life, about a man and a woman and a bottle. About...” – Don, The Lost Weekend ... Movie Quotes Database

Don

[describing his book]

About a messed-up life, about a man and a woman and a bottle. About nightmares, horrors, humiliations, all the things I want to forget.

Helen

Put it all down on paper. Get rid of it that way. Tell it all to whom it may concern. And it concerns so many people, Don...Of course, you couldn't write the beginning 'cause you didn't know the ending. Only now - only now you know the ending.

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