History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYYoung artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRYShe plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. HENRYMen to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
O. HENRYIt 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.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYHospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRYTo a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYOf habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. HENRYShe had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRYIt’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.
O. HENRYA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYBe 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.
O. HENRYThere is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYWhenever 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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