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Quotes from The Voice of the City — O. Henry

1862–1910 United States

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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.

The Voice of the City (1908)

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

The Voice of the City (1908)

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

The Voice of the City (1908)

I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends.

The Voice of the City (1908)

He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.

The Voice of the City (1908)

I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great.

The Voice of the City (1908)

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.

The Voice of the City (1908)

Kerner's father was worth a couple of millions. He was willing to stand for art, but he drew the line at the factory girl. So Kerner disinherited his father and walked out to a cheap studio and lived on sausages for breakfast and on Farroni for dinner.

The Voice of the City (1908)

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