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.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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