“ 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. O. Henry
“ If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York. O. Henry
“ If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York. O. Henry
“ Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
“ 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. O. Henry
“ 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… O. Henry
“ By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. O. Henry
“ And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word t… O. Henry
