Ben Hecht Quotes

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  El amor es el mago que lo saca de su propio sombrero.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Valentines Day, Men

  "A Child of the Century".

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• El tiempo es un circo, siempre recogiendo y alejándose.

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Humorous, Moving

  "Elegy for Wonderland". Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, Views, Castles

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• Intentar determinar lo que ocurre en el mundo leyendo los periódicos es como intentar saber la hora mirando el segundero de un reloj.

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Business, Reading

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

  Ben Hecht

  Mad, Secret, World

  Ben Hecht (1924). “Erik Dorn”, p.99, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Envy, Guilt

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• A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

  Ben Hecht

  Fake People, Men, Thinking

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

  Ben Hecht

  People, Actors, Have Faith

  "Perfidy". Book by Ben Hecht, 1961.

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

  Ben Hecht

  Sports, Brain, Hollywood

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• In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

  Ben Hecht

  Lying, Desire, Deceit

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• That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

  Ben Hecht

  Atheism, Proof, Existence

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

  Ben Hecht

  Nice, Light, Fog

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• Los prejuicios son una balsa a la que se sube el náufrago y rema hasta ponerse a salvo.

  Ben Hecht

  Justice, Diversity, Safety

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• Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

  Ben Hecht

  Loyalty, Men, Giving

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, World, Mass

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• A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
  If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
  Nor has the fool been enriched.
  The thief flatters us by stealing.
  We flatter him by complaining.

  Ben Hecht

  Wise, Men, Yelling

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• 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.

  Ben Hecht

  Political, World, Politics

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• El escritor es un fenómeno humano definido. Es casi un tipo, como lo son los púgiles. Puede ser un mal escritor, insípido o torpe, pero hay un bicho en él que no deja de hilar hilos, y que le abulta un poco la frente, le estrecha la mandíbula, le debilita los ojos y le da niñas en lugar de niños. Sólo un escritor sabe escribir. La gente que pasa años rodeada de escritores -como hicieron los productores-, que son mucho más listos y tienen mucho mejor gusto, nunca aprenden a escribir.

  Ben Hecht

  Girl, Children, Eye

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Stupidest, Connected

  "A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht". Book by Ben Hecht, 1954.

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• Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Differences, Fifty

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• There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

  Ben Hecht

  Dream, Book, Knights

  "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

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• The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

  Ben Hecht

  Thinking, Empires, Barbarians

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, People, Intellectual

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• Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

  Ben Hecht

  Criticism, Dubious, News

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

  Ben Hecht

  Money, Blessing, People

  "A child of the century".

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