In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

Ben Hecht

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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat. by Ben Hecht

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

valentines-day love men

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. by Ben Hecht

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

deceit desire lying

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.

castles views writing

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.

fake-people men thinking

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

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

mad secret world

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

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

hollywood brain sports

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and... by Ben Hecht

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

diversity safety justice

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

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

humorous time moving

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

mass world art

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

girl eye children

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

politics political world

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.

business reading time

Love is a hole in the heart. by Ben Hecht

Love is a hole in the heart.

holes heart love

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

proof existence atheism

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty. by Ben Hecht

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

loyalty giving men

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not... by Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

seventies waste products

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.

envy guilt men

The 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.

intellectual writing people

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

christian war art

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

league bible book