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

O. Henry

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O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Women
Men
Homely
Charmed
Bright
Dull
Fiction
History

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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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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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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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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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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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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Write what you like there is no other rule.
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