The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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