American - Writer | February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964
I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.
Ben Hecht
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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.
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Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
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Love is a hole in the heart.
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
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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.
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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
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