If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“The air was full of human essence, of artificial enticement, of coquetry, indolence, pleasure—the man-made sense of existence.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“She turned on me a flatteringly protracted but a wiltingly disapproving gaze, & then went inside, humming a light song to indicate… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.” — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
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