You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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 right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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