O. Henry Quotes, New York Quotes, Greatness Quotes

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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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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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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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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No friendship is an accident.

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

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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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

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