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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself

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