I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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.’
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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