Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
O. HENRYPerhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
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Those whom we first love we seldom 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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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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 one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
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He studied cities as women study their reflections.
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