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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 honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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 the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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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Blessing Money People
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
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
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Connected Men Stupidest
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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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Bible Book League
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
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
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
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
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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Fighting Heart Kindness
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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Hair Lasts Television
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
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
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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Buzzing Clock Everywhere Hour Learn
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
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
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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Effort Games Years
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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Atheism Existence Proof
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Agony Day Dream Valentines
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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