Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
More O. Henry Quotes
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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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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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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No friendship is an accident.
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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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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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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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