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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2005/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:55:03 -0500


"Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many=
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sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the=20
nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them=E2=80=94as an eru=
ption of trash=20
that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a=20
cultured people."

-Ben Hecht (1893=E2=80=931964) U.S. journalist, author, screenwriter
=E2=80=9CWhat the Movies Are,=E2=80=9D bk. 5, A Child of the Century (1954)=
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