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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 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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
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
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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
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

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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