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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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

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