Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
BEN HECHTImmorality, 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.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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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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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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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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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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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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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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Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
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