We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYIt 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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Whenever 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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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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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I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRY