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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!
O. Henry
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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
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Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver 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.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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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 much of it as another shares old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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