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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

O. Henry

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
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State
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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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way

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