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.
HENRY JAMES
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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