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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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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 seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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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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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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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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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

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