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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More Ben Hecht Quotes
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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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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Love is a hole in the heart.
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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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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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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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I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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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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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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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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Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
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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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