History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYBy rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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