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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. — Dalton Trumbo

Well, life isn't always what one likes. — Dalton Trumbo

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread. — Dalton Trumbo

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU — Dalton Trumbo

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice. — Dalton Trumbo

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. — Dalton Trumbo

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician. — Dalton Trumbo

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. — Dalton Trumbo

Find peace within your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories — Ann Haywood Leal

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. — Dalton Trumbo

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one. — Dalton Trumbo

Bill Harper was a lucky guy. Bill Harper had got Diane and then he had been killed. — Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo

What's so noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo

Hmmmm. But what do the dead say? Did — Dalton Trumbo

I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him. — Anthony Geary

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear. — Dalton Trumbo

I fought fire with oil. — Dalton Trumbo

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. — Dalton Trumbo

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. — Antonio Tabucchi

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? — Dalton Trumbo

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them ... — Dalton Trumbo

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. — Dalton Trumbo

Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better. — Reese Witherspoon

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go — Confucius

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen. — Dalton Trumbo

You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister.
Dead. — Dalton Trumbo

There's no word worth your life. — Dalton Trumbo

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock. — Dalton Trumbo

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? — Sena Jeter Naslund

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. — Dalton Trumbo

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye. — Dalton Trumbo