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“Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.” quote by Dalton Trumbo — Download Open image

“Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.”

Dalton Trumbo

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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for… Democracy means that people can say what theywant to.…

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

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“They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child. They died with their hearts…

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

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“There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and…

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Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

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“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission,…

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

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“The worst criminals on earth are those who toy with love.”

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“What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the…

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

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