The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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