In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Quote by Ben Hecht

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Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there...

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there...

Love is like pi natural, irrational, and very important.

Love is like pi natural, irrational, and very important.

I want someone who will give up anything just to be my everything.

I want someone who will give up anything just to be my everything.