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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing 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
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
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
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
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
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

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