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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

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
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Greatness Place
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
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Appreciation Foreign Town Wife Woman Yourself
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Happiness Life Perfection
I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Lamp Myself Stand
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Day Oneself Ourselves Patriotic
We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Cash Live People Time
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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Air Breathe Life Necessary Notice Scarce
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Friendship Oneself Wonderful Word
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Beautiful Greatness Simplicity True
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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Art Love Oneself Service
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Beginning Count Funeral Medicine Myself Patience Power
It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Horn Love Myself Verify Wind World
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Reflection Study Woman
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

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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