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.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
More Henry James Quotes
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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