It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRYWomen’s weapon, water-drops.
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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 burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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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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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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