Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESIf I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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