All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
O. HENRYIt’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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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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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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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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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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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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