Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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