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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

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Ourselves Road Travel Way
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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Anand Thakur
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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Life Live Person Poverty War
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
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
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Man Marriage Pass Time Woman
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Bright Charm History Home Man Women
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Creativity Pill Story

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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