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.
O. HENRYIt ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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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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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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