I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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