O. Henry Quotes, Wind Quotes, Horny Quotes

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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

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

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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Bolivar cannot carry double

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

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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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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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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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I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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

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

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