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.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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