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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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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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 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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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

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

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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

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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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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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