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Clifford Odets Quotes

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets
Life, Dollar Bills, Dollars
1935 Jacob. Awake and Sing, act1.

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

Clifford Odets
Giving, Months, Minutes

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.

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

Clifford Odets
Miracle, Century, Twentieth Century

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

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".

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

Mr President, the president is dead.

Clifford Odets
President

Sex is the poor man's polo.

Clifford Odets
Sexy, Men, Poor

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