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

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
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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Reflection Study Woman
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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 seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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

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