O. Henry Quotes - Page 3

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• Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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  Life, Men, Coats

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1399, ShandonPress

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• Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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  Art, Village, Lows

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• I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. 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, Giving, Secret

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• Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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  Silly, Flying, Pieces

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.642, Delphi Classics

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• It'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.

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  Wind, Horny, Doe

  "Heart of the West".

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• This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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  Spring, Cities, Soul

  O. Henry (2015). “The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more”, p.77, e-artnow

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• A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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  Funny, Time, Art

  Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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  Life, War, Men

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.113, Penguin

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• There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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  Littles, Couches, Howl

  Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter (2015). “The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Gift of the Magi, The Holy Night, The Mistletoe Bough, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King…”, p.107, e-artnow

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• The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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  Past, Men, Gloves

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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  Sunshine, Blood, Weather

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.675, ShandonPress

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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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  Men, Flames, Cities

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1513, Delphi Classics

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• If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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  Marriage, Men, Marry Me

  The Four Million "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" (1906)

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• It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

  O. Henry

  New York, Ifs

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• Bolivar cannot carry double

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  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1898, ShandonPress

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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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  Bores You, Mosquitoes, Stories

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.346, Penguin

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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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  Men, Hands, Dollars

  1908 The Gentle Grafter,'The Octopus Marooned'.

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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  New York, Feet, Trying

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

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  Art, Directors, Boards

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

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  Home, Men, Light

  O. Henry (2015). “Sixes and Sevens: Ghost Story Collections”, p.127, 谷月社

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

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  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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  Men, Fiction, Dull

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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  Baseball, Running, Moving

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.769, 谷月社

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• There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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  Thanksgiving, Home, Self

  O. Henry, John Hollander, Miles Hyman (2005). “O. Henry”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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  Moving, Two, Together

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.194, ShandonPress

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