“What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?”

—  O. Henry

"The Vitagraphoscope" in Cabbages and Kings http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/ckngs10.txt (1904)

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American short story writer 1862–1910

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