If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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