"It ain't the roads we take; it's what's……" — O. Henry
"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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64 Quotes by O. Henry
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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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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship…
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before…
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I…
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
— J. G. Ballard
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I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know…
— John Banville
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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