Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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