He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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