The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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