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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

O. Henry

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
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
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
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
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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Anand Thakur
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Call Deal King Right Yourself
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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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
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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Love Man Poverty Taste War
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Brilliant Declare Encouragement Greatness Woman
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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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Journey Mystery Soul World
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.

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