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.
O. HENRYMen to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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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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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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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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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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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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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
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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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