No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRYLove 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 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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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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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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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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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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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