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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
Oliver Henry
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Take of London fog 30 parts malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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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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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us--that's what they sing.
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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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