Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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