I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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’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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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 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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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