"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked……" — Ben Hecht
"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety."
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36 Quotes by Ben Hecht
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- 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,…
- In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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- 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…
- 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.
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