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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

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
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
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
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.
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Country White Years
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Hollywood Names Thirty
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
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
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 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 have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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Fate Moving 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

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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