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Harvey Moskowitz is a White jeweler who owns a store in Manhattan’s Diamond District. After Buxbaum’s arrest, Carney sells precious jewels to Moskowitz and also pays the jeweler to teach him how to recognize value. Moskowitz betrays Carney by telling Ed Bench he is in possession of Ambrose Van Wyck’s emerald necklace.
Harvey Moskowitz Quotes in Harlem Shuffle
The Harlem Shuffle quotes below are all either spoken by Harvey Moskowitz or refer to Harvey Moskowitz . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 3
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Learned gentlemen aside, Carney knew crime’s hours when he saw them—dorvay was crooked heaven, when the straight world slept and the bent got to work. An arena for thieving and scores, break-ins and hijacks, when the con man polishes the bait and the embezzler cooks the books. In-between things: night and day, rest and duty, the no-good and the up-and-up. Pick up a crowbar, you know the in-between is where all the shit goes down. He upheld the misspelling in his thoughts, in keeping with his loyalty to his mistakes.
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Harvey Moskowitz Quotes in Harlem Shuffle
The Harlem Shuffle quotes below are all either spoken by Harvey Moskowitz or refer to Harvey Moskowitz . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 2, Chapter 3
Quotes
Learned gentlemen aside, Carney knew crime’s hours when he saw them—dorvay was crooked heaven, when the straight world slept and the bent got to work. An arena for thieving and scores, break-ins and hijacks, when the con man polishes the bait and the embezzler cooks the books. In-between things: night and day, rest and duty, the no-good and the up-and-up. Pick up a crowbar, you know the in-between is where all the shit goes down. He upheld the misspelling in his thoughts, in keeping with his loyalty to his mistakes.
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