O. Henry Quotes, Way Quotes

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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

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We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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

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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

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

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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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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Bolivar cannot carry double

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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

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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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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 gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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