By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRYShe had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
More O. Henry Quotes
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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