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  • Ben Hecht Quote - I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

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    I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

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    A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.

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    Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

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    The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.

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    The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

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    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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    There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.

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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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    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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