I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMES
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Imbeciles 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.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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