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.
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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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