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

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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

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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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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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

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

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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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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 couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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

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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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

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

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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

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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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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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