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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand 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
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
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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