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.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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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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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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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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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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