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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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 was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
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
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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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