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" A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. "
Lying
Learn
Dog
" A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. "
Lying
Perseverance
Pet
" After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. "
Difficult
New
Time
" A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. "
Done
Great
Work
" An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. "
Game
Team
Hometown
" Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. "
Any
Doing
Supposed
" Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it. "
Left
Up
Skin
" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "
Try
Real
Nothing
" At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. "
Money
Beginning
Power
" Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. "
Child
Small
Way
" Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. "
Drawing
Funny
Nothing
" Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. "
Drinking
Fools
People
" Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. "
Woman
Man
Feeling
" For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. "
Time
Reputation
Evil
" Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. "
Soul
Spring
Present
" I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. "
Work
Sitting
Shine
" If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. "
Universe
Like
Him
" I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. "
Than
Been
Behind
" I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. "
Know
Great
Nothing
" I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. "
Death
Hurry
Know
" In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. "
Children
Curiosity
Small
" In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. "
Children
Class
Travel
" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. "
Talent
Time
Writing
" Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. "
Fact
I Am
Fall
" Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. "
Street
Band
Older
" Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. "
Guy
Opera
He
" Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off. "
Think
White
Summer
" Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. "
Tell
Afraid
Fear
" The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. "
Ribbon
Writing
Obstacle
" The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. "
Writer
Word
Who
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