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

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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

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

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

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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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

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

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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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

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

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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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