If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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