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

Ben Hecht

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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
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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Art Mass World
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
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
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
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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Differences Fifty Men
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Business Reading Time
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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Cities Jail Sleep
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
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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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Actors Faith People
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
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
BEN HECHT

Envy Guilt Men
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports

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