Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRYBy rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
More O. Henry Quotes
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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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.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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