Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRY
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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Be 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.
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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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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRY