Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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