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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

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Appearance Life Man Side
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
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
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Expectation Ocean World
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
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
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
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
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Rule Writing Yourself
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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Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
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
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
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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Best Move Picture Round World
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
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
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Exception Necessary Rude Woman

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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