What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESIt 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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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