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 JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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