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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Ben Hecht

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
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
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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 only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Forget Way World
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines

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