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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.

Ben Hecht

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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Blessing Money People
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
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Hair Lasts Television
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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Business Reading Time
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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Effort Games Years
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
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Envy Guilt Men
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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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Bible Book League
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 only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Forget Way World
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them.
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Intellectual People Writing
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
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
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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Fog Light Nice
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety

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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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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