Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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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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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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.
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That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
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Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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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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Love is a hole in the heart.
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Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.
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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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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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