O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. HENRYThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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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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In 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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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.
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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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