Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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