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.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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