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No friendship is an accident.

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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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Bolivar cannot carry double

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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

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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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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 ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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

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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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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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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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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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

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