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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’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
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
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Art Fall Medicine Writing
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
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
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
The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
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Between Curious Difference Good Mark Same Writer
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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Directors Men Movie
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
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him.
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Jobs Stars Writing
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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Atheism Existence Proof

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

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