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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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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
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True

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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