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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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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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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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There 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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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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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Beauty is Nature in perfection circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the round of drinks.
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