Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRYWomen’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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