O. Henry
Writer
1862-09-11
Quotes by O. Henry
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
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He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.
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No friendship is an accident.
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No friendship is an accident.
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
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He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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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, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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 other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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