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

Ben Hecht

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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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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Age Dark Mind
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret 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
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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Business Reading Time
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
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 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

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