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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Ben Hecht

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
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Opinions People Political Sex
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 have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
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
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
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Forget Way World
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone
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
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
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Castle Views Writing

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