“Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, build them in with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them and, hello, America, hang on to your lights, they're the only lights in the world.”

—  Ben Hecht

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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American screenwriter 1894–1964

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