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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?

O. Henry

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
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
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
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
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Invisible Strand Woman
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
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
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
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
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow

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