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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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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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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
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

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