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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Ben Hecht

I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.
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Country White Years
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.
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Blessing Money People
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Business Reading Time
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone
There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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Death Friends Old Silence
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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Fate Moving People
I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Art Fall Medicine Writing
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Opinions People Political Sex
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines

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