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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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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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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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 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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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