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.
BEN HECHTLove is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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Love is a hole in the heart.
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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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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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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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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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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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H.L.Mencken’s war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
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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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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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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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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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