O. Henry Quotes

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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.

  O. Henry

  Way, Turns

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.423, Penguin

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• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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  Adventure, Fate, Fate And Destiny

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• No friendship is an accident.

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  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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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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  People, Cash, Rich

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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  Sugar Coating, Pills, Stories

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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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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  Writing, Giving, Secret

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  O. Henry

  Life, Adversity, Pet

  Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi"

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• If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

  O. Henry

  War, And Love, Poverty

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• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  O. Henry

  Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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  Communication, Conversation, Dough

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress

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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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  Sweet, Silence, Lobster

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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  Bravery, Advice, Coward

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

  O. Henry

  Wonderful

  O. Henry (2015). “Whirligigs”, p.45, Booklassic

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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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  Art, Food, Family Love

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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  Weather, Climate, May

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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• Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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  Country, Enemy, Way

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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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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  Journey, Soul, Goes On

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.182, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Appreciation, Home, Old Glory

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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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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  Writing, Stories, Forget

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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• I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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  Writing, Yarn, Stories

  "Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry".

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• All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

  O. Henry

  Liars, Fall, Hypocrite

  O. Henry (1953). “The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]”

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• I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

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  Mushrooms, People, Bars

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.131, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

  O. Henry

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lines

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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