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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.

O. Henry

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Conversation Existence Taste
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Gift Knowledge Wisdom
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
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
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
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Achieve Climate Ourselves
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
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
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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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
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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