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

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

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. An...

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I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of ...

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Oh, there are no living poets, Miss Van Damn. We're not entirely sure there ever were. They've found...

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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever...

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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybod...

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Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, i...

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Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a ca...

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Paddy Chayefsky

Playwright

Born: 1923-01-29

Died: 1981-08-01

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (29 January 1923 – 1 August 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays.More