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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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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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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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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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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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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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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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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

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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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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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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