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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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Bolivar cannot carry double

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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

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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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

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

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

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

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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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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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