"Each of us, when our day's work is……" — O. Henry
"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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64 Quotes by O. Henry
O. Henry has 64 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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…
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits…
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love,…
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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…
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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…
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf…
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a…
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks,…
— Sufjan Stevens
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For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic…
— Carl Safina
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You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take…
— Joel Salatin
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one…
— Phyllis Rose
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I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain…
— Sue Townsend
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
— Steven Saylor
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If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's…
— Jonathan Evison
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