Quotations From BEN MADDOW

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• 1.

  After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
• 2.

  It sounds like a soul in hell.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Maria Ciavelli (Teresa Celli), The Asphalt Jungle, about the police sirens passing through her neighborhood after the jewel heist her husband participated in (1950).
• 3.

  One way or another we all work for our vice.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
  
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• 4.

  If you want fresh air, don't look for it in this town.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
• 5.

  You can always go home, and when you do, it's nothing. Believe me, I've done it. Nothing.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle, talking with Dix Handley about their plans after their jewel heist (1950).
  
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• 6.

  Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
  
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• 7.

  I got hungry. Greed made me blind.

  Ben Maddow (1909-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
  
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