I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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