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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
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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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 can't buy one minute of time with cash if we could, rich people would live longer.
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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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Write what you like there is no other rule.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry
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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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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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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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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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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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Women's weapon, water-drops.
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