If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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