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“War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.”

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David Hackworth was an influential American journalist known for his reporting during the Vietnam War. His work not only documented the harsh realities of the conflict but also exposed the political and military decisions behind it. more

“Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.”

Enough Remember Behinds Too Much Effects Habit Benefits News Criticism Praise Forgotten Chiefs Censure Dubious Telegrams

Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.”

Lasts Havens Fantastic Parks Chicago Offering Herds Journalistic Bravo Yellowstone

Author:Ben Hecht

“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.”

Years Games Effort Hollywood Lure

Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.”

Names Hollywood Thirty Employed Brothels Starlets

Author:Ben Hecht

“The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.”

Honor Paper Hollywood Links Tissues Dubious Cuffs Tissue Paper

Author:Ben Hecht

“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.”

Mind Age Dark Century Habit Decades Evening Dark Ages Bad Habits Misinformation Muster

Author:Ben Hecht

“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”

Men Connected Stupidest

Author:Ben Hecht

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”

World Country Earth Fighting Citizens Patriotism Nationalism Citizenship World Citizen Patriotism And Nationalism Countries Of The World Environmental Stewardship

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.”

People Mind Becoming Trash Retarded Eruption

Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”

Party Greatness Scene Hollywood Clock Height Twelve Glowing Emergence Vanishing Stardom Fetch

Author:Ben Hecht

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