Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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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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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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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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