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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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