O. Henry Quotes

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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.

  O. Henry

  Way, Turns

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.423, Penguin

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• No friendship is an accident.

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  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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  Adventure, Fate, Fate And Destiny

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

  O. Henry

  People, Cash, Rich

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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  Sugar Coating, Pills, Stories

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  O. Henry

  Life, Adversity, Pet

  Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi"

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• I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Giving, Secret

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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• If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

  O. Henry

  War, And Love, Poverty

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• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  O. Henry

  Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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  Communication, Conversation, Dough

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress

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• Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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  Wonderful

  O. Henry (2015). “Whirligigs”, p.45, Booklassic

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• All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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  Encouragement, Sucess, Brilliant

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• Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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  Country, Enemy, Way

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• 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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  Sweet, Silence, Lobster

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  O. Henry

  Weather, Climate, May

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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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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  Bravery, Advice, Coward

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those whom we first love we seldom marry

  O. Henry

  First Love, Firsts

  O. Henry (2008). “The Best Of O. Henry”, p.143, Jaico Publishing House

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• The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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  Journey, Soul, Goes On

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.182, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Art, Food, Family Love

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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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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  Liars, Fall, Hypocrite

  O. Henry (1953). “The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]”

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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 Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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  Appreciation, Home, Old Glory

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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  Art, One Love, Seems

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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  Writing, Yarn, Stories

  "Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry".

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• If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Stories, Forget

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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