Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRYWhat is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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