A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
About Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Lincoln Polonskywas an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Body and Soul but in the early 1950s was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the midst of the McCarthy era.
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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. D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I’ll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N – O!
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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A 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.
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