You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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