Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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