If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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