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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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