Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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