Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Imbeciles 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.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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 criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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