If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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