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

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch

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