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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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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
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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Bible Book League
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.
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Blessing Money People
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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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Fake Men People Thinking
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Cities Jail Sleep
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
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
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Chicago Offering Yellowstone
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
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
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Men Wise Yelling
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

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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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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