What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. HENRYIt’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
More O. Henry Quotes
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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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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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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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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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