Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht /ˈhɛkt/was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 February 1894
CountryUnited States of America
safety justice mind
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
hair lasts faces
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
men envy guilt
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
yellowstone offering lasts
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
summer love-life ants
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
political world bartender
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
lying desire deceit
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
love heart holes
Love is a hole in the heart.
art world mass
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
sports brain hollywood
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
men stupidest connected
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
sex political-opinions people
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.