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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.

O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
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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Myself Secret Story Writing
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Love Marriage
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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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Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
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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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman

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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