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1. "A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief."If he is wise he has not been impoverished.Nor has the fool been enriched.The thief flatters us by stealing.We flatter him by complaining." ~ Ben Hecht
2. "Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then explain about the summer parks and the white snow and the moon window in the sky. Throw in a poignantly ironical dissertation on life, on its uncharted aimlessness, and speak like Sherwood Anderson about the desire that stir in the heart. Speak like Remy de Gourmont and Dostoevsky and Stevie Crane, like Schopenhauer and Dreiser and Isaiah; speak like all the great questioners whose tongues have wagged and whose hearts have burned with questions. He will listen bewilderedly and, perhaps, only perhaps, understand for a moment the dumb pathos of your eyes." ~ Ben Hecht
3. "A sprinkling of diners saying, 'We eat, but not amid normal surroundings. We are emancipated from normal sourroundings. It is extremely important that we eat off little red circular tables instead of big brown square tables in order to conform with our mission, which is that of non-conformity." ~ Ben Hecht
4. "A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly satisfied until he can substitute pity for his admiration and disdain for his applause. Our admirers are always on the lookout for evidence of our collapse. They find a solace in the fact that our superiority was transitory and that we end as they do—old and useless." ~ Ben Hecht
5. "McCue: Now, Mrs. Margolies, this is Mr. McCue of the City News Bureau— City News Bureau— is it rue, Madame that you were the victim of a peeping tom? Kruger: Ask her if she's worth peeping at?Wilson: Has she got a friend?" ~ Ben Hecht
6. "I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselvesthan a desire to create such an opinion in others." ~ Ben Hecht
7. "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." ~ Ben Hecht
8. "Love is a hole in the heart." ~ Ben Hecht
9. "Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away." ~ Ben Hecht
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain." ~ Ben Hecht
15. "In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel." ~ Ben Hecht
16. "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 is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much." ~ Ben Hecht
17. "Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos." ~ Ben Hecht
18. "I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony." ~ Ben Hecht
19. "In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace." ~ Ben Hecht
20. "Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle." ~ Ben Hecht
21. "People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized." ~ Ben Hecht
22. "Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety." ~ Ben Hecht
23. "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

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