What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRYWhen one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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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.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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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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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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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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