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

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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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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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 studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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 good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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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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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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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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Bolivar cannot carry double

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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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