Nathan Landau This toast is in honor of my disassociation of you two creeps. Disassociation from you, coony captive **** of King's county. And you, the dreary dregs of Dixie.
3rd most-quoted character in Sophie's Choice (1982): in 7 of its 24 quotes
Most scenes with: Sophie (2)
When I first met this one here, she was a rag and a bone and a hank of hair. And that was a whole year-and-a-half after the Russians had liberated the camp she was in.
More lines from Nathan Landau
2 quotes Nathan Landau Nathan Landau On this bridge on which so many great Americans writers stood and reached out for words to give America its voice... looking toward the land that gave them Whitman... from its Eastern edge dreamt his country's future and gave it words... on this span of which Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane wrote, we welcome Stingo into that pantheon of the Gods... whose words are all we know of immortality. To Stingo!
Scenes with Nathan Landau
4 scenes Nathan Don't you see, Sophie? We're dying.
Nathan You spent the whole **** afternoon with him, or should I say, you spent the whole afternoon **** him.
I bet your father is a - very interesting man.
Yeah, my father was - a civilized man. That's a word, yeah? "Civilized"?
Nathan Landau A very good word.
Yeah? My father was a civilized man living in a uncivilized time. The civilized, they was the first to die.
Nathan Landau Tell me. Tell me, Sophie. The same anti-Semitism for which Poland has gained such a worldwide renown that this similar anti-Semitism guide your own destiny, help you along, protect you in a manner of speaking so you became one of the minuscule, handful of people who lived - while the millions died? Tell me. Tell me why? Explanation, please! Tell me why, old lucky number 11379, tell me, why you inhabit the land of the living? What splendid little tricks and strategems sprang from that lovely head of yours to allow you to breath the clear Polish air? While the multitudes at Auschwitz choked - slowly - on the gas?
No!
Nathan Landau Explain!
Stop it!
Nathan Landau Explain!
