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.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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