Quotations by Paddy Chayefsky

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Born: Tuesday, January 23, 1923
Died: Saturday, August 1, 1981 (58 years old)
Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: American

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: Work, Art, Artists, Talk, Thinking, Writers, Writing)

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: God, People, Rest, Right)

I'm a man without a corporation.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: Man)

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: War, Day, First, Hell, Widows)

Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: Democracy, Television)

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: Age, Profit, World)

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
- Paddy Chayefsky
(Keywords: Death, Man, Want)