A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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Kids 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.
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Twenty 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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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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