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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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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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

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

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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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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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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No friendship is an accident.

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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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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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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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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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