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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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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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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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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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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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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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

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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 couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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

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

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

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

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Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

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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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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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