O. Henry Quotes

Bolivar cannot carry double

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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

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

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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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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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

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

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

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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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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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

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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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