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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.

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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Done Except Game Life Play Thing Win Wonder
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Alternation Darkness Dazzle Lighthouse Like Pitch Revolve
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Better Course Every Good Idea Interfuse More Picture Story
…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Abundant Day Decide Embellishment Laughter Long Remainder
Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Allow Defence Everyone Everything Judge Truth Yourself
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Begin Chasity Home Like Patriotism Think
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Care Happen Know Only People Proportion
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Fizzle Grease Own Same Sausage Spulter
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Been Emotion Feeling Hate Love Reminder
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deal Great History Literature Little Produce Take
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Astaire Constant Curiosity Immense Life Wonder
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Life Man Novel Object Represent
Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do Hope Know Tou Until Try
It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Deep Depression Downward Earthward Easier Failure Feeling Freer Live Other Realm Restriction Sound
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Dark Give Hard Motivation Success Work
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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End Give Interesting Meet More Myself Out People Possess Somehow Tenth Vastly
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Good Love Nothing Reason
Things are always different from what they might be.
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Always Different Look might Thing Visible
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Appreciate Appropriate Criticize Intellectual Possession Take
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Country Disagreeable Nothing People Person Some Thing Visitor
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Adequate Agreeable Cheerful Country Difficult Easy Exempt Justify Magnificent Reproach Speak
I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Disappoint Ever Every Firm Mine Rock Stand Trust Yours
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Charm Follow Horrid Meet Money Thing
Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Country Forever Forget Generally Great Illusion Mankind Narrow People Sense Small Stand Unhappy Wake
I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Always Expect Happen Know Worst
It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Aberration Born Fool never Permitted Surprise

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