Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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