Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESI know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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 artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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