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Quotes from Clifford Odets

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
~ Clifford Odets
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
~ Clifford Odets
Sex - the poor man's polo.
~ Clifford Odets
There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.
~ Clifford Odets
We could have made beautiful music together.
~ Clifford Odets
Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
~ Clifford Odets
A job is a home to a homeless man.
~ Clifford Odets
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
~ Clifford Odets
This is your life and mine! It's skull and bones every incha the road! Christ, we're dyin' by inches!
~ Clifford Odets
I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.
~ Clifford Odets
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
~ Clifford Odets
Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out.
~ Clifford Odets
It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
~ Clifford Odets
You 're too sufficient by yourself...too inside yourself
~ Clifford Odets
I feel like the wrath of God. You like that boy, don't you? I love him, Tom.
~ Clifford Odets
What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!
~ Clifford Odets
But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed!
~ Clifford Odets
You are only lost if you knew where you were going.
~ Clifford Odets
Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what is right! Put fruit trees where our ashes are!
~ Clifford Odets
You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe, and I don't mind being what you call "half dead." In fact it's what I like. The twice I was in love I took an awful beating and I don't want it again! I want you to stop it Don't devil me, Joe. I beg you, don't devil me...
~ Clifford Odets