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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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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
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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