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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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 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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory

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