To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
More O. Henry Quotes
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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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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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
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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 I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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