It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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