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Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence. — Anthony Hecht

If they were afraid of him, then he must be Satan or something even worse, like maybe Sarah Palin. — Stephani Hecht

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht

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

My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome. — Jake Hecht

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. — Anthony Hecht

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep... — Anthony Hecht

Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan. — Jennifer Michael 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

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? — Lynn Hecht Schafran

God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. — Jamey Hecht

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way. — Jessica Hecht

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

Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born. — Anthony Hecht

We believe each other into being. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

I can't wait to continue traveling and do as much as I can possibly do. — Jake 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

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference. — Jessica Hecht

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht

OMG, I am so WTF over it, I'm LOL-ing — Stephani Hecht

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

Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance — Jennifer Michael 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

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

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

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

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

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. — Daniel Hecht

Logan couldn't have been more surprised if Satan himself had come up from hell and started ladling soup at a homeless shelter. — Stephani Hecht

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it. — Jessica Hecht

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

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

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

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

Love is a hole in the heart. — 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

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. — Anthony Hecht

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

You don't always get to chose who you fall in love with — Stephani Hecht

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

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

Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach. — Jessica Hecht

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue. — Jessica Hecht

You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip? — Stephani Hecht

Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there. — Julie Hecht

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

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

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking — Anthony Hecht

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA. — Jake Hecht

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

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