The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
Henry JamesTag: time henry-james
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry JamesI call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
Henry JamesHe found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock at Berne. THEY came out, on one side, at their hour, jigged along their little course in the public eye, and went in on the other side. He too had jigged his little course--him too a modest retreat awaited.
Henry JamesBetween nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas--he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn't be broken.
Henry JamesEverything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn't come; but perhaps--as they would seemingly here be things quite other--this long ache might at last drop to rest.
Henry JamesSo then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so."
Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out."
She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't indeed resist you."
Then there we are!" said Strether.
Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie.
Henry JamesI adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry JamesShe took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
Henry JamesTag: truth knowledge fiction fact
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