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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.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
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’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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
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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Art Mass World
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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Fake Men People Thinking
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
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
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
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

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