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I'm a friend of James.
His friends call him Jimmy, so who are you really?
I'm a, whatchacallit, an acquaintance. From New York.
That part I suspected. What's your name?
Never mind my name. Is he here or ain't he?
He's not.
Then where is he?
Maybe he's up your ass. Have you considered looking there?
The whole thing's a game isn't it? So easy for you. Well, I'll keep at it. Maybe one day I'll lie as good as you.
It's "lie as well as me", you dolt. You wanna be taken seriously, then learn how to fuckin' speak.
[about the case against Rothstein for fixing the World Series] You get mud on your trousers, or horse shit, you don't rub it off. You let it dry and set awhile, then you brush it off nice and easy.
The World Series was months ago, Lawyer Fallon, and the horse shit hasn't dried yet!
Knock, goddammit!
I did!
Well, knock like a man!
Jesus Christ! The fuck are you doing?
You told me to knock in a manly fashion.
Well leave the door on the hinges!
That stuff you said in front of the boys, bout me in the war; makes me look bad. That ain't how you treat a buddy.
Is that what we are?
What did you think we were?
Accomplices.
It's the same thing right?
Hrrm. You want this? [brings out a book] My sister sends them to me, cause I used to enjoy 'em.
You don't anymore?
Hrrm. It occurred to me the basis of fiction is that people have some sort of connection with each other. Hrrm. But they don't.
The whore, Pearl... I was just doing Sheridan's bidding.
Relax, I'm not gonna kill you. Did you serve, Liam? In the war.
I had pneumatic fever.
3 years. France, mostly. It's almost impossible to describe the horror. It's a living... waking... nightmare. There was a soldier, a German; him and his men tried to attack our position in the Argonne forest. It was nighttime. While he was trying to climb through some barbwire, I shot him twice; once in the stomach, once in the neck. He slumped over the barbwire, and no matter what he did to try and wriggle free, it just got worse for him. I left him there, like that, for days, listening to him moaning, crying, "mutti, mutti, mutti". That's German for "mama"; "mama", that's what he kept saying. The curious thing is that despite the fact that his situation was utterly hopeless, he didn't wanna die. I offered to kill him several times, but he just kept fighting. Like some miracle would befall him, get him out of his predicament. We hold on so desperately to life. Some people feel, certainly in that soldier's situation, that being alive is much, much worse. [pause] I'm gonna go now. I don't wanna ever see you again.
[frightened] You won't.
You must be awfully proud of Warren.
It's a terrible, wretched thing. A fortune teller told me he'll die in office.
I'll make it up to you, later.
Later, when?
When I'm in the White House.
The only chance you have of entering the White House is on a guided fuckin' tour.
Chalky, Mr. White, heard back from his men in Philadelphia.
Any sign of them?
Mrs. D'Allesio, the mother is there, the sisters and another brother.
Which one?
Adrian.
Never heard of him.
He's a dentist. I could go there.
Where?
To Philadelphia.
There's no point. They're laying low someplace else.
I would kill the mother and the sisters. And the dentist. That would make them stick their heads up.
You know the nice thing about the Bronx Zoo, Charlie? There's bars between you and the monkeys.
[to Matteo D'Alessio] We've already met actually; you shot at me on the boardwalk.
You've got me confused with somebody else.
There's another dago walking around with dog shit on his face?
Mr. Rothstein made his bed.
Now you fellas can die in it.
[to Matteo D'Alessio] Huh, tough talk when he ain't in the room, right?
What did you say?
Oh I'm sorry, I thought you heard me. What I said was that you, Mr. Thompson and this coon here can all go fuck each other. Right. [Jimmy draws his gun] Oh! Oh! Fuckin' tough guy, you're gonna shoot me for mouthing off?
I wasn't going to, but you kinda talked me into it.
Nobody cares about you. They just care about what you can give them. And that includes your Irish chippie, who you just handed a blank cheque!
Y'know, it's too bad you didn't see Hardeen the other night.
What?
It's an entertaining act, but if he wasn't Houdini's brother, nobody'd give a fuck!
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