I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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