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Ben Hecht Quotes: The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured 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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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

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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.

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.



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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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 faces acclaimed in odelike language.

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 faces acclaimed in odelike language.



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

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





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