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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRY

Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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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Myself Secret Story Writing
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY

Love Marriage
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRY

Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Addiction Choice Discover Eat Habit Nature Place
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire

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