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Ben Hecht

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Love is a hole in the heart.


— Ben Hecht


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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.


— Ben Hecht


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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.


— Ben Hecht


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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.


— Ben Hecht


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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 world #both #cater #elite #masses

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.


— Ben Hecht


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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


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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.


— Ben Hecht


#dream #i #poet #raucous #valentine

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.


— Ben Hecht


#hollywood #i #jacket #off #put

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.


— Ben Hecht


#any #brothel #employed #hollywood #name






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Did you know about Ben Hecht?

It's a comedy about a Broadway producer who was losing his leading lady to the seductive Hollywood film industry and will do anything to win her back. He could tear through things and he tore through life.

Film historian Richard Corliss called him "the" Hollywood screenwriter someone who "personified Hollywood itself. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ben Hecht.

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