You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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