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  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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

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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark. Download This Image

    The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

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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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    Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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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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    Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.

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    There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

    I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

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    A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

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    The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of 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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    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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    The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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    There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

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    The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

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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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