The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
BEN HECHTOut of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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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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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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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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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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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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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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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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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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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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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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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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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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