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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
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
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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