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they have taken our sons and mangled them to death

Pike: Who are we, Mr. Gordon? If we remain silent while they make the next war—who then are we with our silence? Accomplices, Citizen! Let me talk out my heart! Don't stop me! Citizens, they have taken our sons and mangled them to death! They have left us lonely in our old age. The bellyrobbers hav…

—p.191 Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays Paradise Lost (155) by Clifford Odets
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you're home for me

Moe: What the hell do you want, my head on a plate ? Was my life so happy? Chris', my old man was a bum. I supported the whole damn family five kids and Mom. When they grew up they beat it the hell away like rabbits. Mom died. I went to the war; got clapped down like a bedbug; woke up in a room wit…

—p.98 Awake and Sing! (33) by Clifford Odets
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it's trying to be a man on the earth

Flor: We wanted to have kids.

Sid: But that sort of life ain't for the dogs which is us. Christ, Baby! I get like thunder in my chest when we're together. If we went off together I could maybe look the world straight in the face, spit in its eye like a man should do. Goddamnit, it's trying to be…

—p.20 Waiting for Lefty (1) by Clifford Odets
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the world is supposed to be for all of us project/panopticon-epigraphs

Edna: I know this—your boss is making suckers outa you boys every minute. Yes, and suckers out of all the wives and the poor innocent kids who'll grow up with crooked spines and sick bones. Sure, I see it in the papers, how good orange juice is for kids. But damnit our kids get colds one on top of…

—p.10 Waiting for Lefty (1) by Clifford Odets
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I wish I was a kid again

Joe: I'd get another job if I could. There's no work -- you know it.

Edna : I only know we're at the bottom of the ocean.

Joe: What can I do?

Edna: Who's the man in the family, you or me?

Joe: That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks. Christ, gimme a break, too! : A coffee and Java all…

—p.9 Waiting for Lefty (1) by Clifford Odets