East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. HENRYShe plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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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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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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