I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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