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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
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
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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

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