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.
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.
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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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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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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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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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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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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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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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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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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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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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