Dalton Trumbo Quotes

• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

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  Hero, Evil, Sides

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• The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

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  Betrayal, People, Enemy

  "The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man".

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• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

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  Empleo, Empresa, Responsabilidad

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• When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

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  Men, Rome, One Man

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• Los números nos han deshumanizado. Mientras desayunamos leemos que 40.000 estadounidenses murieron en Vietnam. En lugar de vomitar, buscamos la tostada. Nuestra prisa matutina por las calles abarrotadas no es para gritar asesinato, sino para llegar a ese abrevadero antes de que otro engulla nuestra parte.

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  Morning, War, Coffee

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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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  Fighting, Laughing, Goes On

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• Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

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  Christian, Mean, Doctors

  "The Remarkable Andrew". March 5, 1942.

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• Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Democracy

  Dalton Trumbo (1941). “The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man”

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• Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.

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  Beautiful, Freedom, Ocean

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• Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

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  Mother, Country, War

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

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  Heart, Dust, Voice

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• Parece que ahora todo el mundo habla de democracia. Yo no lo entiendo. En mi opinión, la democracia no es como un traje de domingo que se saca y se lleva sólo en los desfiles. Es el tipo de vida que lleva un hombre decente, es algo por lo que vivir y por lo que morir.

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  Sunday, Men, Thinking

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• A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

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  Men, Privilege, Saving Money

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• Hickory dickory muelle las nueces de mi papá de shell shock. Humpty dumpty pensó que era sabio hasta que llegó el gas y le quemó los ojos. Un dillar un dólar un becario de las diez volar sus piernas y luego verlo holler. Rockaby bebé en la copa del árbol no se detienen una bomba o probablemente flop. Ahora me acuesto a dormir mis bodegas a prueba de bombas bueno y profundo, pero si me matan antes de que me despierto recordar a Dios su por tu bien amén.

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  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

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  Truth, People, Matter

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• 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.

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  War, Book, Men

  Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.104, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

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  Brother, Kings, Years

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

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  Travel, Interesting, Bedroom

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

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  Music, Beautiful, Believe

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• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

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  Marriage, Fool, Earth

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• Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

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  Fear, Sunshine, Dumb

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.

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  Acceptance, Laughing, Earth

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.153, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Una de las desventajas de ser un patricio es que de vez en cuando te ves obligado a actuar como tal...

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  Advantages And Disadvantages, Disadvantages, Obliged

  "Fictional character: Marcus Licinius Crassus". "Spartacus", 1960.

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

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  May, Bankers, Leeches

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• Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.

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  Airplane, Boys, Thinking

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