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Ben Hecht

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.


— Ben Hecht


#lies #peace #satisfying

Listen, little boy. In this business, 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


#business #doin #first #follow #gotta

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.


— Ben Hecht


#habits #hollywood #known #less #much

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.


— Ben Hecht


#onto #prejudice #raft #safety #shipwrecked

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


#first #follow #gotta #keep #law

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


#determine #going #hand #like #newspapers






About Ben Hecht

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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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