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Shut up,' he explained.

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Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

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The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he…

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“Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.”

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This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

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“Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”

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They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

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No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it.

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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back…

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Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them…

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He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

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“Then we quit jokeing and he says You have improved a hole lot”

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“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”

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“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.”

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“They’s no use kiddin’ ourself any more,’ said Tommy Haley. ‘He might get down to thirty-seven in a pinch, but if he…

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How can you write if you can't cry?

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

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No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

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