Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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.’
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