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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
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
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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