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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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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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Take of London fog 30 parts malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.
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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
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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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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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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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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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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 one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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