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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.

O. Henry

No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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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Ethnicity Identity Race State
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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Contact Difference Man Privilege
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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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Clear Himself Sunshine Weather
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story
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
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
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
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

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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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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