“I’m your wife, damn it. And if you can’t work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“When you gonna get married, Marty? You should be ashamed of yourself. All your brothers and sisters, younger than you, they get married and got the children. I meet your mother in the produce store. She say to me “Eh, you know a nice girl for my boy Marty?” What’s the matter with you? That’s no way!”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“It’s not greed and ambition that makes wars–it’s goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we’ve managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we’ll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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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.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“You don’t send a man to his death because you want a hero.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“Your last words as you led the charge up the beach were, “Okay, men, let’s show ’em whose beach this is!”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“In peacetime, they had all been normal decent, cowards, frightened of their wives, trembling before their bosses, terrified at the passing of the years, but war had made them gallant. They had been greedy men. Now they were self-sacrificing. They had been selfish. Now they were generous. War isn’t hell at all. It’s man at his best, the highest morality he is capable of.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“I’m not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“I don’t know what’s good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn’t good, or bad, or true. It’s merely factual. It’s sensual. It’s alive!”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“I’m afraid to look in the mirror. I’m afraid I’m going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
