"So I heard, um—Your brother, he was telling me that you, uh—you're going to college. Right. To-To study to be a secretary. Is that right?"
"Yeah, anything to get out of the East End."
"Well, what's so bad with the East End?"
"I've just got bigger dreams than pushing a pram or haggling with the butcher. I don't quite know what they are yet."
"Well, the East End's not that bad. The centre of the earth can be anywhere you like."
“Even here? In Bethnal Green?
Do you like being a gangster?"
"…I'm not a gangster. I'm a club owner. Hm, I like the money and i like the respect of being a club owner. I'm not a gangster. I could've been a boxer, you know , but then, you know—I know me. I'd end up looking like some sort of potato. I wouldn't even kniw what day of the week it was. This way, at least I know who I am, you know .
And also, I like the fact that I made a little something of myself. I don't owe the world anything."
“So long as the workd agrees with you.”
"I think the world will be all right."
——————————————————
"You think that he's beautiful and I've got a face like a gorilla's ass."
——————————————————
“It really is. It is that simple for you, isn't it? You know, just-just go straight. Babe, you know, life isn't always the way we want it to be, you know. Life has other plans. It-it's the way it is. It's life."
"I love you. I love you. I've never loved anybody before, but I love you, Reggie."
“And I love you too.”
"You think it could protect people?"
"What?"
"Love."
—————————————————————
"The centre of the world could be anywhere you like, even here, in the East End of London. The world is quite like London. It's not good, it's not bad. It just is. There's no morality or dishonor, just your own lonely code, until your race is run, until the end. Until we're all just ghosts of the people we once thought we were.”
Smooth
View more about Legend reviews
