Quote#Wisdom
Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark
Quote byO. Henry · 1862–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916)..
English (original)
Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
— O. Henry
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