What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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.
More O. Henry Quotes
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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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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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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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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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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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