O. Henry Quotes, Past Quotes, Men Quotes

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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No friendship is an accident.

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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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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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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

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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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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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

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When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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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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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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