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.
HENRY JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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