To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
More O. Henry Quotes
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Broadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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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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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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If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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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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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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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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