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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

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht

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

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht

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

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. — Ben Hecht

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

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht

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

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley. — Ben Hecht

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

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

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. — Ben Hecht

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

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. — Ben Hecht

The German mass murder of the Jews ... brought my Jewishness to the surface. — Ben Hecht

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. — Ben Hecht

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

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

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. — Ben Hecht

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. — Ben Hecht

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

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

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

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

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are. — Ben Hecht

Love is a hole in the heart. — Ben Hecht

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people. — Ben Hecht

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. — Ben Hecht

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others. — Ben Hecht

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

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head. — Ben Hecht

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