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.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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