| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44796 |
| QUOTATION: | 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? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910), U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Anna Davis (Anne Revere) to David Davis (Art Smith), Body and Soul (1947). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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