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

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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

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

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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

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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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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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

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

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