Clifford Odets Quotes

• There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

  Clifford Odets

  Giving, Months, Minutes

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• Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

  Clifford Odets

  Life, Dollar Bills, Dollars

  1935 Jacob. Awake and Sing, act1.

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• Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.

  Clifford Odets

  Country, Cheer, Language

  1937 Mr Bonaparte. Golden Boy, act1, sc.2.

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• It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

  Clifford Odets

  Miracle, Century, Twentieth Century

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• There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

  Clifford Odets

  Marriage, Husband, Two

  "Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays".

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• 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

  Sad, Suicide, Grief

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• 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 Is Short, Happy Life, Night

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• Mr President, the president is dead.

  Clifford Odets

  President

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• Sex is the poor man's polo.

  Clifford Odets

  Sexy, Men, Poor

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