Love is a hole in the heart.
BEN HECHTSocially, 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.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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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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H.L.Mencken’s war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
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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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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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