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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash

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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