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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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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
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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