Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Walter Burke: Wart
Quotes
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Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.
Wart : Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.
Fran : Come on, Judge, don't do that.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.
Fran : Well, I will, I'll help.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...
Flora : What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?
Wart : Yeah but what kind of a life?
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.
Goodbye George : Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?
Max : You know, he's right.
Wart : Maybe you got something.
Nellie Romano : Hey, are you all serious?
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who else is there to help you, Nellie?
Wart : Are you for it, Nellie?
Nellie Romano : Yes, I am for it.
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!
