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Ben Hecht

"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."

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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."

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

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"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
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"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."
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"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."
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"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety."
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"I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony."
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"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
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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."
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"Love is a hole in the heart."
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"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
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