Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. HENRYIf you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
More O. Henry Quotes
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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 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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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