Carolina QuotesHe 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.
O. Henry Carolinian
Source
"The Plutonian Fire"
- work
- The Voice of the City (1908)
- year
- 1908
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“He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from,…” O. Henry. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-54452A3420. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/54452a3420
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