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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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

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

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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

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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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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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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 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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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

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