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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

O. Henry

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
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRY

Beginning Hilarious Man Sorrow
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

Book Day Ideal Seek Silence Work
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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Forget Please Story Writing Yourself
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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Business Family Love Man Religion Starve
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
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Clear Couch
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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Animal Communication Human Talk Together
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
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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Tears Weapon Woman
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Air Hot Show Vote Way
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.
O. HENRY

Ethnicity Identity Race State
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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Contact Difference Man Privilege
Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Gold Greatness Wash
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Boredom Conscience Irritate Morals
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.
O. HENRY

Grave Heart Nature Observation Young Yourself

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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