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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.

O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Dominate Life Smile
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Darkness Home Light Myself
If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY

Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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
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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Difference Grief Light Old Remain Sorrow
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
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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Country Enemy Hospital Pass Praise Yourself
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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Fortune Prize Road Shadow Win
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.
O. HENRY

Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

Conversation Existence Taste
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

Animal Communication Human Talk Together
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRY

Journey Mystery Soul World
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRY

Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship

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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