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Henry James

I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
HENRY JAMES

Disappoint Ever Every Firm Mine Rock Stand Trust Yours
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMES

Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES

Emotion Feel Love Overrated Respect
Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Change Different might never Thing Wait
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMES

Criticism Force Good Importance Insist Nonsense Talk Useful
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Case Class Health Infatuation Men never Nine Ninety Other People Superstitioyus Themselves Women Young
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMES

Art Dark Doubt Give Madness Passion Task Work
Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMES

Best Care Character Emotion Itself Live Respect Soul Talke
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.
HENRY JAMES

Actual Deep Dig Doubt Forever Life Out Something Taken Wait Without
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMES

Country Eat Garbage Ketchup Provide Sprinkle
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMES

Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
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.
HENRY JAMES

Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way
When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMES

Alive Eat Forget Memory Remember Sharp
If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMES

Careful Certainty Experience Feel Immediate Monition Novice Only People Rather Say Tantalize Write
Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMES

Immediate Life Novelist Our Pass Real Wait
You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMES

Allow Life Ook Punish Want Wish Yourself

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