Clifford Odets Quotes

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Boychick, wake up! Be something! Make your life something good. For the love of an old man who sees in your young days his new life, for such love take the world in your two hands and make it like new. Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets
I believe in the vast potentialities of mankind. But I see everywhere a wide disparity between what they can be and what they are. That is what I want to say in writing. I want to say the genius of the human race is mongrelized; I want to find out how mankind can be helped out of the animal kingdom into the clear sweet air.

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
My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in thirty years.

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

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
I'd hate to take a bite out of you; you're a cookie full of arsenic.

Clifford Odets
I don't want tips from the kitty. I'm in the big game with the big players. My experience I can give you in a nutshell, and I didn't dream it in a dream either. Dog eat dog. In brief: from now on the best of everything is good enough for me.

Clifford Odets