I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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