Love is a hole in the heart.
BEN HECHTLike 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.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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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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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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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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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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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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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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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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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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