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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

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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Directors Men Movie
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
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Between Curious Difference Good Mark Same Writer
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.
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Christmas Criticism Dubious News Praise
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
H.L.Mencken’s war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
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Art Christianity Conflict War
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone
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
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

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