In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRYWhat 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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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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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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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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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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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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