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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

Ben Hecht

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 written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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Fate Moving People
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
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
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
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Envy Guilt Men
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
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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