Paddy Chayefsky Short Quotes

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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more.

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I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

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It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.

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There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.

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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

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You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

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I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more!'

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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

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Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?

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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

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