Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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