Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRYTo a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
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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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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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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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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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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