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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Ben Hecht

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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Christmas Criticism Dubious News Praise
As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Country Cultured Mind People
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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Fog Light Nice
There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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Death Friends Old Silence
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
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
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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Political Politics World
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
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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Fate Moving People
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety
The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.
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Director Flop Geniuses Head Producer Spear
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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Lust Number
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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Actors Faith People
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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Directors Men Movie
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer

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