Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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