He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRYThis fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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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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