There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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.
O. HENRY