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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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
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
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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See 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

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