Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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