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O. Henry has 63 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of…
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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…
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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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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to…
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
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There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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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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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it,…
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions…
— Wallace Stegner
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A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
— Dashiell Hammett
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There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
— O. Henry
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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
— Daniel Dennett
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Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group…
— Ashley Kahn
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I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety…
— Marc Jacobs
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As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.
— John D. Voelker
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