She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRYThere 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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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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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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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