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.
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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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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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