Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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.’
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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