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

Quote by Ben Hecht

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Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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

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

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

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

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

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who...

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who...

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

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

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

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

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

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

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

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

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They...

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They...

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an...

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an...