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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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

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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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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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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No friendship is an accident.

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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

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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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

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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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

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