Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHTOut of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
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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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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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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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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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Love is a hole in the heart.
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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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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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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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