Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMES