A View from the Bridge quotes

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"Justice is...
...very important here." -Alfieri
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"And now we are quite...
...civilized, quite American." -Alfieri
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"Listen, you been givin' me the willies...
...the way you walk down the street, I mean it." -Eddie
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"You're a baby, you don't...
...understand these things." -Eddie
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"Look, you gotta get used to it,...
...she's no baby no more." -Beatrice
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"...his head was bouncin'...
...like a coconut." -Beatrice
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"Me, I want to...
...be an American." -Rodolpho
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"What're you gonna...
...stand over her till she's forty?" -Beatrice
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"You gotta give him to understand...
...that he can't give you orders no more." -Beatrice
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"Because there's nothing illegal...
...about a girl falling in love with an immigrant." -Alfieri
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"...there is too much love for the daughter,...
...there is too much love for the niece." -Alfieri
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"I want to be an American so I...
...can work, that is the only wonder here - work!" -Rodolpho
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"You think it's so easy to turn around and say...
...to a man he's nothin' to you no more?" -Catherine
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"But I will not let her out of my hands because...
...I love her so much, is that right for me to do?" -Rodolpho
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"Morally and legally you have no rights,...
...you cannot stop it; she is a free agent." -Alfieri
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"When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case...
...it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now." -Alfieri
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"What do you want from me?...
...They're moved out; what do you want now? -Beatrice
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"I want...
...my respect!" -Eddie
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"That one!...
...I accuse that one!" -Marco
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"To promise not to kill...
...is not dishonorable." -Alfieri
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"He degraded my brother. My blood. He...
...robbed my children, he mocks my work." -Marco
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"There is no law for that?...
...Where is the law for that?" -Marco
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"This is not God, Marco....
...You hear? Only God makes justice." -Alfieri
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"How can you listen...
...to him? This rat!" -Catherine
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"I want my name! He didn't...
...take my name; he's a punk." -Eddie
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"Wipin' the neighborhood with...
...my name like a dirty rag!" -Eddie
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"...not purely good,...
...but himself, purely..." -Alfieri
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"And yet, it is better to settle...
...for half, it must be!" -Alfieri
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Card 2

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...civilized, quite American." -Alfieri

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"And now we are quite...

Card 3

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...the way you walk down the street, I mean it." -Eddie

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Card 4

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...understand these things." -Eddie

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Card 5

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...she's no baby no more." -Beatrice

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