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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.

Ben Hecht

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
BEN HECHT

Forget Way World
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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Castle Views Writing
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
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Actors Faith People
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
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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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Admire Always Dislike Obvious Work
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
Socially, 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.
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Political Politics World
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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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
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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Lust Number
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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Age Dark Mind
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them.
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Intellectual People Writing
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
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Fog Light Nice
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer

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