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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

O. Henry

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. HENRY

Fair Move Soul Wire
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty 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
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
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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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
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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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRY

Clear Himself Sunshine Weather

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