We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYWe can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYYoung artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRYMen to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
O. HENRYThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRYIf you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
O. HENRYThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. HENRYIt ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYHe seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
O. HENRYI’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.
O. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRYWhenever 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.
O. HENRYHospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. HENRYBy rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HENRYAll great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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