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.
O. HENRYThere is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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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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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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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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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’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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No friendship is an accident.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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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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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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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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