Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
BEN HECHTWhen 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.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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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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Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
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He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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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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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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I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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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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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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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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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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