Budd Schulberg Quotes
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I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.
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Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.
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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
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As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
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Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
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Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
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I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
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Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
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Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.
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You can't eat your friends and have them too
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In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.
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Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.
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You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
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You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.
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Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
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I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
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