Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
BEN HECHTChicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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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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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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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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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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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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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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As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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