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  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

Ben Hecht

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

    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.

    BEN HECHT
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony. Download This Image

    I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

    Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

    Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

    Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

    BEN HECHT
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

    He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

    They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.

    Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.

    BEN HECHT
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

    Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. Download This Image

    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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    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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    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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    The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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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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