Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRYHe studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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