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“Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.”
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“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.”
Source : O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress
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“I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.”
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“Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.”
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“Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope, not because we need to escape where we are, but because we have souls - and those souls were made for something greater than this world. I write about it so often because I think it compels us all. I want to make songs that people at any intellectual level can feel stirred by. Hope is the basest of human feelings to me, the feeling that all emotion springs from.”
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“The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.”
Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition
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“I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.”
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“That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.”
