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.
BEN HECHTOf the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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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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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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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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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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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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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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