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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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

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Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

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

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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

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

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

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

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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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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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