Budd Schulberg Quotes

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else

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Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on

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Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Silence is the sure sign that you're 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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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 believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.

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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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