If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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