Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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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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