Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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