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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
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
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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

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