I’m the New England man. I’m vital in New England.
And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England.
With scholarships to three universities they’re gonna flunk him?
That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises.
Be liked and you will never want.
Cause I get so lonely - especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to.
You picked me?
I remember you walking away down some open road.
I still feel — kind of temporary about myself.
Charley, you’re the only friend I got. Isn’t that a remarkable thing?
Why didn’t I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time! Ben! That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate! What a mistake!
Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s
rich! The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress!
‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.
You can’t feel it with your hand like timber, but it’s there!
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the
years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.
that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known!
(after a long pause, astonished, elevated): Isn’t that — isn’t that
remarkable? Biff — he likes me!
Imagine? When the mail comes he’ll be ahead of Bernard again!