All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
O. HENRYI’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
More O. Henry Quotes
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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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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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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