The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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