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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.

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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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

Those whom we first love we seldom marry.

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