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

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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
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study 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
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
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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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
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
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself

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