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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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