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“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.” quote by O. Henry — Download Open image

“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.”

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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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Then all this earth shines like one house.

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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