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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
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
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

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.

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