This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRYShe had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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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 ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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 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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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