Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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 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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I 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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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