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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

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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Herself Impossible Love Power Quite Relationship Woman Worship
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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Grudge Hands Man Personal Way
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
No friendship is an accident.
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Accident Friendship
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Decent Home Limitation Right Yourself
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Fair Move Soul Wire
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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Myself Secret Story Writing
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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Ambition Color Courage Darkness Man Sunshine
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
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
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
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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Gravitation Habit Pieces Power Theory
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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Disaster Face Myself Reason See Story
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’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place

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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