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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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

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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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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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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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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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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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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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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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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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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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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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