It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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