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Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Attributes Away Clothes Events Fine Generosity Holiday Hung Integrity Kindness Modesty Moods Occasions Our Permit Proud Them Tolerance Us Wear

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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Always Away Circus Moving Moving Away Packing Time Up

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I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Alley Been Cells Chicago Cities Factories Front Hotels Inside Key Lake Lived Mansions Once Only Other Police Ring Rooftops Were Windows Wore

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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

Topics: Alms Beggar Both Envy Guilt His Know Like Looking Man Me Poor Poor Man Poverty Rich Rich Man Shows Wealth Who

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What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Better Happiness Sigh Than Tomorrow Yesterday

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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Chicago Fantastic Haven Herd Journalistic Last Offering Park Sort Yellowstone

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

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Hat His Love Love Is Magician Man Out Own

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

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Mind Onto Prejudice Raft Safety Which

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Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Against Any Art Away Carried Cliche Directors Guard Heads Keep Men Noisy Presence Producers Subversive Task Trusted Unusual Who Will Writers

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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.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Clock Determine Going Hand Like Newspapers Reading Second Tell Time Trying Watching World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 28th, 1894

Died: April 18th, 1964

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