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We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity. — Paddy Chayefsky

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. — Paddy Chayefsky

She does it simply because it looks beautiful. — Nicola Yoon

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

Creativity needs discipline and freedom. — David Ogilvy

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows. — Paddy Chayefsky

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. — Paddy Chayefsky

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

Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. — Paddy Chayefsky

Being a champion opens lots of doors - I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance. — Mike Tyson

Your mind is all you truly have. So it makes sense to train it. — Joshua Fields Millburn

On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose. — Sinclair Lewis

Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father? — Toba Beta

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions ... — Ludwig Von Mises

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. — Paddy Chayefsky

I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[ ... ]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value! — Paddy Chayefsky

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero. — Paddy Chayefsky

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning. — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is democracy at its ugliest. — Paddy Chayefsky

I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm a man without a corporation. — Paddy Chayefsky

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard. — Robert A. Heinlein

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. — Nick Cave

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats

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

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work. — Paddy Chayefsky

You're not such a dog as you think you are. — Paddy Chayefsky

Television will do anything for a rating ... anything! — Paddy Chayefsky

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. — Richard Dawkins