if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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 takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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