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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

Ben Hecht

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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
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
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
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
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Bible Book League
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 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
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
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
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 ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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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Director Flop Geniuses Head Producer Spear

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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