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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
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
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 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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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

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