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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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

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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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

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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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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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No friendship is an accident.

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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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