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I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Ben Hecht

I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Envy Guilt Men
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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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Director Flop Geniuses Head Producer Spear
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 ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
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
I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.
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Lust Number
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
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

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