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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

O. Henry

It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY

Ourselves Road Travel Way
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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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing Yourself
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. HENRY

Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY

Art Himself Respect Time
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRY

Invisible Strand Woman
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.
O. HENRY

Contact Difference Man Privilege
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRY

Happiness Life Perfection
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
O. HENRY

Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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