Quote by Ben Hecht
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is n

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht

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Im a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. – Ben Hecht

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Sports
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In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owners mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. – Ben Hecht

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Hollywood
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Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. – Ben Hecht

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Hollywood
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Other Quotes from
Cities
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Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

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Cities

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. – Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

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Cities

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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Cities

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. – John Steinbeck

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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