O. Henry Quotes, Bravery Quotes, Advice Quotes

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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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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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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