Selected Stories Quotes

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

“He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

“You sold a story last week," said Pettit, "about a gun fight in an Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot seven bandits as fast as they came in the door. Now, if a six-shooter could—"

"Oh, well," said I, "that's different. Arizona is a long way from New York. I could have a man stabbed with a lariat or chased by a pair of chaparreras if I wanted to, and it wouldn't be noticed until the usual error-sharp from around McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it." (from "The Plutonian Fire")”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

“after ingurgitating another modicum of the royal booze,”
― O. Henry, The Selected Stories of O. Henry

“,,ხილვა" თეთრი ლექსით დაწერილი სიზმარია და სხვა არაფერი.”
― ო'ჰენრი, მოთხრობები