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  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
  • Ben Hecht Quote - As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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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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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

    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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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.

    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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    They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

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    Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Hecht Quote - 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.

    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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    Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

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    In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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    I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

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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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    He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

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

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    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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