All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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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.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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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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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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