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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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege

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