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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

O. Henry

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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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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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Love Man Poverty Taste War
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
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Best Move Picture Round World
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
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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Anand Thakur
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
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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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
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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Ourselves Road Travel Way
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
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.
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Ethnicity Identity Race State

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