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"What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York?" "Never had a wife."

— Abraham Polonsky Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

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What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Force of Evil (1948)

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

Body and Soul (1947)

It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming.

Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

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