Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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