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

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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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Cities
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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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Weve uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. – Jimmy Carter

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969

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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. – Jean de la Fontaine

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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. – Henry A. Wallace

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. – William Temple

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