It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I 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.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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