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

Ben Hecht

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
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
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Dubious Hollywood Honor
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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Day Love Men Valentines
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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Art Fall Medicine Writing
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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Atheism Existence Proof
I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Brain Hollywood Sports
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
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
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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Fighting Heart Kindness
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
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
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Castle Views Writing
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
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
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
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Diversity Justice Safety

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