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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.

Ben Hecht

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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Atheism Existence Proof
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
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
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
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Art Mass World
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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Fake Men People Thinking
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 honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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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Actors Faith People
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Country Cultured Mind People
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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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Differences Fifty Men
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Cities Jail Sleep
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men

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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