Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRYMy advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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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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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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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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