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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house...

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house...

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in...

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in...