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

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

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

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

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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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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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

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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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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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