Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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