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  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - 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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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.

Ben Hecht

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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.

    I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.

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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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    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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    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.

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    The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them.

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    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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    Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

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    I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

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    As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

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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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    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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    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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    Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.

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    Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

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    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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