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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht

The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
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Between Curious Difference Good Mark Same Writer
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
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Political Politics World
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
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Actors Faith People
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
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Art Mass World
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
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.
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Christmas Criticism Dubious News Praise
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.
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Lust Number
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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Fake Men People Thinking
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World

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