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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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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
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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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