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.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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