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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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

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

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

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

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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

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

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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