If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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