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  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

Ben Hecht

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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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    H.L.Mencken’s war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

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

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

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

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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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    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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    Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

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    People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

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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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    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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    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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    That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

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