It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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