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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.

Ben Hecht

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
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
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June Life Love Summer
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
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
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
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
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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Christmas Criticism Dubious News Praise
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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Intellectual People Writing
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
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
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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Giving Loyalty Men
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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Fake Men People Thinking

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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