O. Henry
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Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
— Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916).
O. Henry (eigentlich William Sydney Porter; * 11. September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina; † 5. Juni 1910 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte die literarische Gattung der Kurzgeschichte in der Zeit um 1900.
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Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing.
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it.
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