“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence”
Source: Selected Stories
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O. Henry 49
American short story writer 1862–1910Related quotes
“There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.”
As quoted in Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), by William A. DeGregorio, pp. 19–20
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
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“Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”
Source: Under the Pink
“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?”
Pachuco Cadaver
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”
"Harlem"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore —
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over —
like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode?