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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
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
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
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
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile

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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