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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Ben Hecht

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
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Castle Views Writing
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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
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
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
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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Men Wise Yelling
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Opinions People Political Sex
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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Forget Way World
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.
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Country White Years

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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