Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYIt was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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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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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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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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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?
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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