Best littles & long-ago Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

Knows World Littles Long Doe Said Care Able Half Know How Struggle Fate Seats Long Ago Other Half One Half Half Life

Book:How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Source: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

“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. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”

Source: The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…

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