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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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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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
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
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote 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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
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
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
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 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
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
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
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
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
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
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
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place

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