O. Henry

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

— O. Henry

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

— O. Henry

Women's weapon, water-drops.

— O. Henry

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

— O. Henry

Bolivar cannot carry double

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

— O. Henry

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

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“Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.”

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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

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

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I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

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“the crystal air, with some of the efficacy of faith, seemed to remove the mountains almost to the sea, bringing them so…

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“Scattered upon the flimsy dresser scarf were half a dozen hairpins—those discreet, indistinguishable friends of womankind, feminine of gender, infinite of mood…

— O. Henry

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it…

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“I want to ask him to wait," she said. "I have just found my father, and I want it to be just…

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“It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.”

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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…

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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…

— O. Henry

“For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the…

— O. Henry

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is…

— O. Henry

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates…

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were…

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“There'll never be a perfect breakfast eaten until some man grows arms long enough to stretch down to New Orleans for his…

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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.…

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“We were in the main dining-room, and there was a fine-dressed crowd there, all talking loud and enjoyable about the two St.…

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“Oh, come off your perch!" said the other man, who wore glasses. "Your premises won't come out in the wash. You wind-jammers…

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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…

— O. Henry

“You sold a story last week," said Pettit, "about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew…

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“Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I…

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

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“I'll put you wise. You remember the old top-liner in the copy book—"Honesty is the Best Policy"? That's it. I'm working honesty…

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“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if…

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No friendship is an accident.

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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard,

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

— O. Henry