O. Henry Quotes, Liars Quotes, Fall Quotes

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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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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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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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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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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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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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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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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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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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

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