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.
BEN HECHTLove is a hole in the heart.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.
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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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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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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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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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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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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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The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.
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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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