She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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