“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.”

—  Ben Hecht

Nothing Sacred (1937)
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American screenwriter 1894–1964

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