Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRYTurn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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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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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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