Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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