A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYYou must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYKids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYBut to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYD’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYTwenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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