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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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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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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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

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

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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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No friendship is an accident.

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

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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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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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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