20 quotes
American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)
“I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
on Truth
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
on Wisdom
"The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be."
on Life
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you."
on Self Awareness
"Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped."
on Writing
"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
"If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point."
on Courage
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
on Strength
"I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself."
"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
on Relationships
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
on Success
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
on Habits
"It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it."
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
"People change and forget to tell each other."
on Communication
