The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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 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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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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