We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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 you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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