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Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
- Ben Hecht
#Half
#Less
#More
#Movies
#Two
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
- Ben Hecht
#Better
#Happiness
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
- Ben Hecht
#Mind
#Prejudice
#Raft
#Safety
#Which
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Ben Hecht
#Movies
#Nature
#Political
#Religion
#Who
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
- Ben Hecht
#Fear
#Kindness
#Me
#Never
#Respect
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
- Ben Hecht
#Desires
#Lies
#Peace
#Satisfying
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
- Ben Hecht
#Bad
#Good
#Men
#Talent
#Women
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
- Ben Hecht
#Follow
#Keep
#Law
#Trouble
#Yourself
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.
- Ben Hecht
#Always
#He
#Love
#Man
#Secrets
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.
- Ben Hecht
#Clock
#Time
#Trying
#Watching
#World
The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
- Ben Hecht
#Brought
#German
#Jews
#Mass
#Surface
Love is a hole in the heart.
- Ben Hecht
#Heart
#Hole
#Love Is
#Love
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
- Ben Hecht
#Art
#Both
#Elite
#Masses
#World
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
- Ben Hecht
#Integrity
#Kindness
#Proud
#Tolerance
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.
- Ben Hecht
#Envy
#Looking
#Man
#Me
#Wealth
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
- Ben Hecht
#Hat
#Love Is
#Love
#Man
#Own
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
- Ben Hecht
#Always
#Circus
#Moving
#Packing
#Time
#Up
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