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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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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
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
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
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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
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
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
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
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
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself

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