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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
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
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

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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