Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRYLife is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
More O. Henry Quotes
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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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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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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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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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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