To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWhen one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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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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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 live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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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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