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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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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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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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

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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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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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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 was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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

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

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

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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

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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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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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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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