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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Ben Hecht

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
Love is a hole in the heart.
BEN HECHT

Heart Holes Love
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
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
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Cities Jail Sleep
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety
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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Men Wise Yelling
H.L.Mencken’s war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
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Art Christianity Conflict War
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
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

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