"I don't know, everybody's gettin' so Goddam educated in this country there'll be nobody to take away the garbage. It's gettin' so the only dumb ones left are the bosses."
"It's a tragedy: you stand n the street today and spit, you're gonna hit a college man."
"And now I live in the usual darkness; I can't find myself; it's even hard sometimes to remember the kind of man I wanted to be."
"The cats in that alley are practical, the bums who ran away when we were fighting were practical. Only the dead ones weren't practical. But now I'm practical, and I spit on myself."
"We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! That's the principle; the only one we live by - it just happened to kill a few people this time, that's all. The world's that way, how can I take it out on him? What sense does that make? This is a zoo, a zoo!"
"I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better .I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father."
"You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's why he died."
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