35 Quotes by Abraham Polonsky

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.

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?

If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.

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.

Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?

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.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched – even the watchers.

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