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.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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