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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.

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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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

Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.

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