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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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

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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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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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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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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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