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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More O. Henry Quotes
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
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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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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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No friendship is an accident.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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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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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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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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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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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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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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