I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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