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O. Henry
American
Writer
About the author
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Conversation
#Existence
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Old
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Vote
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Love
#Words
#Art
#Nothing
#Family
#Man
#Religion
#Business
#Patriotism
#Shadows
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
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.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Man
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Art
#Service
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#May
#Weather
#Climate
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Want
#Home
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Day
#American
#Thanksgiving
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Woman
#Act
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Life
#Smiles
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Love
#World
#Wind
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Habit
#Choice
#Nature
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Fate
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Country
#Court
#Treasure
#Citizenship
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Old
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Rights
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#People
#State
#Race
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Time
#Man
#Women
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry,
American
Writer
#Time
#Men
#Women