O. Henry Quotes

Bolivar cannot carry double

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Women's weapon, water-drops.

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

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

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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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

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

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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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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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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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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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

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

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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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