All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Anonymous
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
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Alexander Trocchi
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
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Joseph Bruchac
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By O. Henry
No friendship is an accident.
He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
