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" 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. "
Man
Secrets
Other
" A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. "
Any
Better
Never
" Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. "
Park
Yellowstone
Herd
" Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. "
Me
Work
Money
" 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. "
Work
Better
Man
" I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery. "
Police
Windows
Key
" I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. "
Poet
Valentine
Written
" 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. "
Know
Looking
Man
" I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. "
Jacket
Brain
Hollywood
" In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. "
Who
Any
Thirty
" In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. "
Lies
Satisfying
Peace
" 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. "
Business
Politicians
Dime
" 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. "
Generosity
Proud
Integrity
" Love is a hole in the heart. "
Hole
Heart
Love Is
" Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. "
Man
Hat
Own
" Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. "
More
Two
Less
" People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. "
Political
Sex
Opinions
" Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. "
Safety
Raft
Prejudice
" Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche. "
Art
Against
Will
" The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface. "
Mass
Jews
Brought
" There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion. "
Political
Movies
Nature
" There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. "
Follow
Law
Trouble
" The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. "
You
Masses
Art
" Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. "
Away
Moving
Time
" 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. "
Trying
Time
World
" What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. "
Better
Yesterday
Tomorrow
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