Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHTWriting 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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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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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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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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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Love is a hole in the heart.
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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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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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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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For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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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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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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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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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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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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