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BEN HECHT
American novelist, playwright and screenwriter
(1893 - 1964)

He plays their dreams on a mouth organ. He tells them their secrets on a banjo.
      - [Poets : Sandburg, Carl]

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
      - [Life]

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.
      - [Alms]

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
      - [Love]

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
      - [Prejudice]

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
      - [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.
      - [Newspapers]

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