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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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