Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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