Things are always different from what they might be.
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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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