If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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