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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
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
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
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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

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