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Love is a hole in the heart.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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.
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
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.
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies 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.