o.henry Quotes

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
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Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
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Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
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You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
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She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
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Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.
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Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
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The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold gray fog that came and kissed the lips of the three thousand, and then delivered them to the cross. That night the tubercles, whose ravages hope holds in check, multiplied. The writhing fingers of the pale mist did not go thence bloodless. Many of the wooers of ozone capitulated with the enemy that night, turning their faces to the wall in that dumb, isolated apathy that so terrifies their watchers. On the red stream of Hemorrhagia a few souls drifted away, leaving behind pathetic heaps, white and chill as the fog itself. Two or three came to view this atmospheric wraith as the ghost of impossible joys, sent to whisper to them of the egregious folly it is to inhale breath into the lungs, only to exhale it again, and these used whatever came handy to their relief, pistols, gas or the beneficent muriate. - A Fog in Santone (1898-1901)
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The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)
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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
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According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door
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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
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And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.
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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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