You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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