Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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 superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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