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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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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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

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Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cities are the abyss of the human species. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.

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God made the country, and man made the town. – William Cowper, The Task, 1785

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