She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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 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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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