"Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster Ã la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves."

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Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

O. Henry

#Sweet Quotes #Silence Quotes #Done Quotes

“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”
“Popular music sucks so bad right now.”
“It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.”
“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it Â— for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?”
“The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.”
“I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.”
“If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.”
“The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. Thatâ€™s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.”

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