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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

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY

Atmosphere Live Money Pay Yourself
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. HENRY

Lamp Myself Stand
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRY

Love Man Poverty Taste War
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRY

Creativity Pill Story
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRY

Cash Live People Time
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.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

Rule Writing Yourself
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

Achieve Climate Ourselves
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRY

Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY

Adventure Calculate Fate Greatness True
By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

Call Deal King Right Yourself
It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY

Ourselves Road Travel Way
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRY

Bright Charm History Home Man Women
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRY

Best Move Picture Round World
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRY

Artist Author Drawing Literature Young
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRY

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