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

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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

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

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

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

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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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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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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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

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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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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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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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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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No friendship is an accident.

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

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