Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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