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

Quote by Ben Hecht

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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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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

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

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 the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

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...

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...