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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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

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

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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Bolivar cannot carry double

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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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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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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