I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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