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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
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
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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Anand Thakur
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service

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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