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Join the roomWilliam Sydney Porter, mais conhecido pelo pseudônimo O. Henry, foi um escritor americano conhecido principalmente por seus contos, embora também tenha escrito poesia e não ficção. Suas obras incluem "The Gift of the Magi", "The Caballero's Way", "The Duplicity of Hargraves" e "The Ransom of Red Chief", bem como o romance Cabbages and Kings. As histórias de Porter são conhecidas por suas observações naturalistas, narração espirituosa e finais surpreendentes.
“What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?”
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.”
“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.”
“Broadway — the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”
“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”
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