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Write what you like there is no other rule.

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
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Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
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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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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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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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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
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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.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry
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