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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.

Ben Hecht

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
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
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Cities Jail Sleep
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them.
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Intellectual People Writing
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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Directors Men Movie
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
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him.
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Jobs Stars Writing
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Hollywood Names Thirty
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Envy Guilt Men
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone

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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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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