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

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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

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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.

O. HENRY

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.
O. HENRY
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

O. HENRY

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRY

Creativity Pill
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.

O. HENRY

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY
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

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

Way
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

O. HENRY

Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRY

Wash
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRY

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

O. HENRY

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRY
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. HENRY

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

Domination Down
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.

O. HENRY

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.
O. HENRY
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

O. HENRY

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
O. HENRY

Pass
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

O. HENRY

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. HENRY

Hold
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.

O. HENRY

When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Oneself
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

O. HENRY

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HENRY

Count Funeral Medicine
Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

O. HENRY

Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
O. HENRY

Day
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.

O. HENRY

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.
O. HENRY

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

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