Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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