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

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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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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 Conscience Irritate Morals
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
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
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself

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