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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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

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

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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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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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