You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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