She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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