Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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