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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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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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Myself Secret Story Writing
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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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
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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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
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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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship

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