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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.

Ben Hecht

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
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
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him.
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Jobs Stars Writing
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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Age Allies Intellectual
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
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Country Cultured Mind People
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
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
BEN HECHT

Atheism Existence Proof

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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