If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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