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

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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Day
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation
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 Irritate Morals
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Oneself Word
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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Starve
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.

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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Patriotic
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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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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Together
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Verify
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Calculate

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

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