I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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