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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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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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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish 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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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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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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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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

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

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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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

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

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