There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYIn 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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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 straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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