Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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