A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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 had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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