O. Henry Short Quotes

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Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.

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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

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A straw vote, says I, only shows which way the hot air blows.

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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.

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A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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

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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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

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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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What a woman wants is what you're out of. She wants more of a thing when it's scarce.

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

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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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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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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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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 a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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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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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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