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.
HENRY JAMESI am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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