Clifford Odets quotes

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. (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. View quote
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. View quote
Clifford Odets
Sex is the poor man's polo. View quote
Clifford Odets
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. View quote
Clifford Odets
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. View quote
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. View quote
Clifford Odets
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. View quote
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...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love--the serge outlasts the silk. View quote
Clifford Odets
Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out. View quote
Clifford Odets