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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky
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Abraham Polonsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 5
Died: 1999
Died: October 26
Film Director
Lawyer
Novelist
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky
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