Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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