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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

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
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Hair Lasts Television
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Hollywood Names Thirty
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
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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Country White Years
The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.
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Director Flop Geniuses Head Producer Spear
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
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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Fighting Heart Kindness
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
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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
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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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Death Friends Old Silence

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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