Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRYThe 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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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What 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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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