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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
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
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

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