All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
O. HENRYA straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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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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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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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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