His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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