Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Alfie Scopp: Avram

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Quotes 

• Tevye : Then there are the others in our village. They make a much bigger circle. We don't bother them, and so far, they don't bother us. And among ourselves, we *always* get along perfectly well.

  [pointing to Itchak and Avram] 

  Tevye : Of course, there was the time when he sold him a horse and told him it was only six years old, when it was really 12. But now, it's all over, and we live in simple peace and harmony.

  [In Avram's ear] 

  Tevye : It was 12 years old.

  [Avram nods] 

  Itchak : It was six!

  Avram : Tevye knows!

  [they begin arguing] 

• Avram : [coming into the synagogue]  I'm sorry, Rabbi...

  Rabbi : Yes of course, what news of the outside world?

  Avram : [holding up his paper]  Terrible, Rabbi!

  Rabbi : Then don't tell me. If I want bad news, I'll read about Noah and the flood.

  [the shul laughs] 

  Rabbi : Avram, surely somewhere there are good things happening. Can't you buy a paper that prints those things?