If this was love, love had been overrated.
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.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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