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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.

Ben Hecht

Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Art Fall Medicine Writing
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
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Hair Lasts Television
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
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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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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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Political Politics World
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
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
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Age Dark Mind
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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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
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 only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Forget Way World
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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Differences Fifty Men

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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