Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
BEN HECHTFor many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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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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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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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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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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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.
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They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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