Quotation by Ben Hecht

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Swan/Mary Rutledge: Listen, listen to them. Men like to yell, don't they? They imagine they are millionaires already.
Col. Cobb: More than that. They've all left lives behind them they didn't like. They all dream of being reborn in the new land.
Swan: Do they? Or do they dream of gold?
Col. Cobb: No, no, Miss Rutledge. Behind that fog, lies not only sand filled with gold, but a new empire for men of vision.
Swan: Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (1893–1964), U.S. writer, screenwriter, Charles Macarthur U.S., screenwriter, Edward Chodorov U.S., screenwiter, and Howard Hawks. Swan/Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), Colonel Cobb (Frank Craven), Barbary Coast, commenting on the gold prospectors who have swarmed to San Francisco (1935).

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