In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHTI 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.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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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.
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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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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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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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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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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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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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Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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For 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.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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