She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRYThere 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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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Fortune 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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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.
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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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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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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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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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