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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
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
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Journey Mystery Soul World
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
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Advice Benefit Brave Coward Hold Yourself
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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