A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYFortune 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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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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 can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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