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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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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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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 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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way

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

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