Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRYWhat 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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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