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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.

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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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
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
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
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
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State

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