I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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