I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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 have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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