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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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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Love Man Poverty Taste War
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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 Love Myself Verify Wind World
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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