Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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