Ben Hecht Quotes

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• Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
• 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…
• He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
• 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…
• People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
• 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…
• In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
• 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…
• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
• 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…
• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
• The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
• 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…
• A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
• The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was…
• 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…
• 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…
• I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

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