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«Love is a hole in the heart.»
«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.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Lovers
| Keywords:
apt, The Object of
«Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
circus, circuses, moving, packing, The Circus
«He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass»
«Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety»
«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.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
newspapers, second hand
«I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
be given, connected, director, distinction, producer, producers, stupidest, The producer, The Producers
«We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
bawdy, caste, castes, caste system, crooks, privileged, social system, social systems
«The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both»
«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 side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
American culture, Bad movie, corrupted, eruption, lamed, side effect, side effects, write of
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