The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
BEN HECHTThere is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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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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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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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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There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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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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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.
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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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