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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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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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Domination Down Moral Reflection Smile
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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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

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