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.
O. HENRYWhen one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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