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Walter 'Monk' McGinn quotes from Gangs of New York (2002)

Brendan Gleeson

Tied for 6th most-quoted character in Gangs of New York (2002): in 3 of its 71 quotes

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A glorious resurrection will spring from the depths... to which these miserable creatures have fallen. In God, they will find their true home.

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Walter 'Monk' Mcginn

I've got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they're for? They're to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle, too. In Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privilege what could only be got and held by the decimation of a race. That war is a thousand years old and more. We never expected it to follow us here. It didn't. It was waiting for us when we landed. Your father tried to carve out a corner of this land for his tribe. That was him, that was his dead rabbits. I often wondered... if he had lived a bit longer, would he have wanted a bit more?

Walter 'Monk' McGinn

Well that was bloody Shakespearian. Do you know who Shakespeare was, boyo? The fella who wrote the King James Bible.

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