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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Credible
Should
Stories
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Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
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Dignity
Faces
Two
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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Moral
Standards
Strong
Moral Sense
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Guests
Hospitality
Jewels
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The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
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Brain
Stomach
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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Luck
Merit
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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Mind
Shadow
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Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
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Fear
Dodge
Folly
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There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
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Dangerous
Ignorance
Safe
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
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Body
Submit
Tongue
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Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
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Broke
Catastrophe
Disgrace
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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Mean
Rude
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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Fool
Philosopher
Waste
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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Glasses
Keys
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
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Glass
Hemingway
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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Fun
Reading
Writing
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A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
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Ice
Safety
Skating
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
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Holmes
Marvelous
Scene
Stories
At Least One
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
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What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
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Literature
Obscenity
Trials
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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Broken
Mere
Schedules
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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Luck
Occasions
Picks
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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Holmes
Stories
Thinking
Two
One Or Two
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I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
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Answers
Assumption
Two
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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Brain
Ifs
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Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
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Effort
Thousand
Shrewd
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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
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Daring
Detectives
Finesse
Ingenious
Joy
Stratagem
Rare
Read
Detective
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As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
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Distasteful
Latter
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Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.
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Never Quit
Obvious
Spirals
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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Funny
Work
Humorous
Statistics
Two
Make
Look
Make Up
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War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
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Men
War
Pickles
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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Women
Intellectual
Process
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
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Optimist
Pessimist
Pleasant Surprises
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No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
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Women
Pockets
Taken
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I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)
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Needs
Nero
Trying
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There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
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Earth
Physicist
Tricks
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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Men
Library
May
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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Crime
Income
Taxes
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No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
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Women
Men
Mean
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I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.
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Girl
Cat
Wild Life
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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Choices
Force
World
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Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
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Men
Labels
Primitive Man
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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Book
Two
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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Balls
Detective Stories
Games
Stories
Ball
Ball Game
Detective
Professional
Professional Writer
String
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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Alarms
Clock
Trouble
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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Admiration
Fortitude
Wealth
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I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
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Being Myself
Bother
Busy
Regarded
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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Adolescence
Depth
Ideas
No Idea
Scope
Shallow
Women Are
Hemingway
Stayed
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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Coincidence
Expected
World
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The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
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Book
People
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