Ben Hecht Short Quotes

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

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Go on, Heathcliff, run away. Bring me back the world!

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

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I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

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You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?

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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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

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"It's gonna be just like war!" an editor exults. "That's it! War! You put that in the lead.

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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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The only place I felt at home was in your heart. You were the only light that didn't go out on me.

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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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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

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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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[Goldwyn] filled the room with wonderful panic and beat at your mind like a man in front of a slot machine, shaking it for a jackpot.

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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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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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The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.

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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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Gibbons is a man full of pain and violence. On this night, there is a Witch's Sabbath in his heart. Storms are blowing his world to bits and great troubles are pounding him on a reef.

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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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