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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

O. Henry

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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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Art Himself Respect Time
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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Love Man Poverty Taste War
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
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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Expectation Ocean World
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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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Myself Secret Story Writing

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