He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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