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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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