Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYWe can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
More O. Henry Quotes
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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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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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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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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