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

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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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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 was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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

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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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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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

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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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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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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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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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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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

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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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