A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYIt 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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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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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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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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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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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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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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