Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRYFortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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No friendship is an accident.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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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.
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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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.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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.
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