Memorable Quotes from Jerry Levine
1 quoteNavigating Ambition and Support in Life Choices
Steve Boyer
You could start out as a cashier... and then work your way up to becoming a manager of one of these places - just like your dad.
Ron Kovic
I get $1700 a month from the government. I think I'm just going to lay low, and look around...
Steve Boyer
That's charity money, Ronnie; this isn't.
[dismissively]
Ron Kovic
Charity?
Steve Boyer
All I'm saying is that you got to - you got to put the war behind you, you know; you got to forget about this chair you're in!
Ron Kovic
Sometimes, Stevie, I think people, they know you're back from Vietnam, and their face - changes: the eyes, the voice, the way they look at you, you know.
[leans forward]
Steve Boyer
I know what you mean, Ronnie, but people here - they don't give a shit about the war! Yeah! To them it's just a million miles away. It's all bullshit, anyway. I mean, the government sold us a bill of goods and we bought it, and got the shit kicked out of us, and for what, huh?
Ron Kovic
What do you mean, "we," Stevie? You were in college, man.
Steve Boyer
You bought that Communist bullshit, Ronnie. Yeah, they were going to take over the world, you remember that? Fenelli, you, Walsh - the whole town was devastated. For what? For lies, for bullshit lies?
[shrugs his shoulders; pause]
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