Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRYNo friendship is an accident.
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No friendship is an accident.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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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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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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The 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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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 seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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