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

Ben Hecht

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
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Opinions People Political Sex
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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Jobs Stars Writing
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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
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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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
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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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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Death Friends Old Silence
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
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
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

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