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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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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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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'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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

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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've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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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