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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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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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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
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
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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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Expectation Ocean World
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing 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

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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