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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.

Ben Hecht

As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Country Cultured Mind People
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
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Atheism Existence Proof
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
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Castle Views Writing
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
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone
They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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Fighting Heart Kindness
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
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
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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Effort Games Years
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World

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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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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