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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
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
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
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection

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