True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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