A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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