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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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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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Men
Life
Reversible
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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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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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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
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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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Write what you like there is no other rule.
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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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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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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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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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