Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.
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“Here, take the money, Ben. It’s not like people. It’s got no memory. It don’t think.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“A good word is as a good tree—
its roots are firm,
and its branches are in heaven;
it gives its produce every season
by the leave of its Lord.”
—Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“Peg: Who are you?
Alice: I’m nobody.
Peg: Oh now, don’t sulk. We’re all nobody. “Nobody” is anybody who belongs to somebody. So if you belong to nobody, you’re somebody. Understand?”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)