You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESIf I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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