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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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

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

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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

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

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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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