Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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