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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
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Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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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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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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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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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.
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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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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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Beauty is Nature in perfection circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the round of drinks.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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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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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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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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