Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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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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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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