Ben Hecht Quotes

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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. - Ben Hecht quote.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
— Ben Hecht Esquire

time

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. - Ben Hecht quote.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
— Ben Hecht

love

People are sometimes the kindest to those they want to deceive. - Ben Hecht quote.
People are sometimes the kindest to those they want to deceive.
— Ben Hecht

kindness

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. - Ben Hecht quote.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
— Ben Hecht A Guide to the Bedevilled

prejudice

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 quote.
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 in The New York Times

newspapers

The writer is a definite human phenomenon.  He is almost a type-–as pugilists are a type.  He may be a bad writer–an insipid one or a clumsy one-–but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns. - Ben Hecht quote.
The writer is a definite human phenomenon.  He is almost a type-–as pugilists are a type.  He may be a bad writer–an insipid one or a clumsy one-–but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns.
— Ben Hecht Esquire

writers