Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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 mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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