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

Quote by Ben Hecht

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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...

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

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...

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...

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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...

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those...

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those...

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television...

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television...