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.
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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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
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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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Love is a hole in the heart.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
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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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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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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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