Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
BEN HECHTInnocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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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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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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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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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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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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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life’s hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
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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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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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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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As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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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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