You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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