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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
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
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
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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
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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Animal Communication Human Talk Together

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