I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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