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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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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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
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
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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

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